Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: char to decimal Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 06:56:58 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <92ea64F3avU1@mid.individual.net> <92ft5pFjeiU1@mid.individual.net> <92hu9kFh10U2@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net lNAQkXq/pIs1gcNnrm87F09Z/oyZHRiOGNAPTINHrjJ8CAlemjc73zt1uG+Xin83J08mW38IcheaIY/hURXp4A== NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 10:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="shGW1hzNTdrFcr6Uwr4q2TTy+4/trkza806LAhq+T2F6tSYDzoCsyY6GKlZl66wjOa+ZIEya07fepoQNbRXPkk5GndH/fQRWGYpmvi7QUJdNCfk9PhBtCYNU6pZumETS"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: <92hu9kFh10U2@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:5m4Fz6TYuNZZFaR6EnXMk2aFgTM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3667 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. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg