Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: char to decimal Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 01:09:54 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 53 Message-ID: <92jguaFkucU2@mid.individual.net> References: <92ea64F3avU1@mid.individual.net> <92ft5pFjeiU1@mid.individual.net> <92hu9kFh10U2@mid.individual.net> <92ipf8F72qU1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net m2I9/Lk6DGs5BVLDvX2ZkwedjpgwGI8UZDNGJUGN429ReZeOMk Cancel-Lock: sha1:zkNNLAyZA4Ql1mFFi+0QGpBuzvo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3730 On 06/05/2011 19:02, Lew wrote: > On 05/06/2011 01:29 PM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: >> On 06/05/2011 11:56, Lew wrote: >>> On 05/06/2011 05:45 AM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: >>>> On 05/05/2011 22:10, Lew wrote: >>>>> markspace wrote: >>>>>> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I need it to match the packet i/f [?] specs designed by somemone >>>>>>> else >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> requires text characters be sent as decimal ascii [sic] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> That's a really odd requirement. Your spec might mean just regular >>>>>> text. Not >>>>>> ascii text, as in the character 9 followed by the character 7, but >>>>>> just 'a' as >>>>>> a literal 97 byte value. >>>>>> >>>>>> Just saying. >>>>> >>>>> What value does that spec indicate to transmit, say, the characters >>>>> 'æ' >>>>> or 'À', Dirk? >>>> >>>> English alphabet only >>> >>> The English alphabet includes 'æ', 'ë', 'ö', 'œ' and other such symbols >>> not included in ASCII. >>> >> >> Not in my part of the tech world it doesn't. >> We don't do Old English Runes either. > > Excuse me, but what does the "tech world" have to do with what is and is > not in English? Those letters are part of English orthography. If your > "part of the tech world" doesn't recognize that fact, then the lack of > recognition is an error. Ignoring reality doesn't change reality. > Well, as I said elsewhere in the thread: "I need it to match the packet i/f specs designed by somemone else that requires text characters be sent as decimal ascii " If it's not in ascii its not needed. Ignoring what I wrote doesn't change reality either. -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology