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Re: char to decimal

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: char to decimal
Date	2011-05-06 14:02 -0400
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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.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 01:43 +0100
  Re: char to decimal Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2011-05-04 17:49 -0700
  Re: char to decimal Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-05-05 01:06 +0000
    Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-05 20:03 +1200
      Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 07:03 -0400
        Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 11:18 +0000
          Re: char to decimal Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-05 06:11 -0700
            Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 01:59 +1200
              Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-05 16:53 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 11:49 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-06 08:46 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 18:43 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:52 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 11:39 +0000
              Re: char to decimal Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:13 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 11:49 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-05-06 08:47 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-06 18:43 +1200
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:54 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-05-06 10:30 +0300
              Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:05 -0400
            Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 14:56 +0000
              Re: char to decimal Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-05 11:48 -0700
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:06 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 21:28 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:32 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 08:31 +0000
          Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:04 -0400
      boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 09:00 -0400
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-06 06:54 -0700
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-06 07:07 -0700
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-06 08:30 -0700
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-06 15:35 +0100
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 19:12 +0200
        Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 13:26 -0400
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:25 -0400
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:28 -0400
          Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-09 12:51 -0400
            Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-09 23:54 +0000
            Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-09 20:51 -0400
              Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-10 11:20 -0400
            Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-10 13:47 +1200
              Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-10 11:02 -0400
                Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-11 14:05 +1200
                Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-11 08:11 -0400
  Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 02:12 +0100
  Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-04 21:59 -0400
    Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 16:14 +0100
      Re: char to decimal markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-05 11:20 -0700
        Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 17:10 -0400
          Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-05 22:00 +0000
            Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-05 18:20 -0400
          Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 10:45 +0100
            Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 06:56 -0400
              Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 11:48 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-05-06 08:38 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-06 09:47 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 12:02 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 19:15 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 14:01 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 20:07 +0200
                Re: O/T linguistics (Was: char to decimal) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 15:28 -0400
                Re: O/T linguistics Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-06 21:44 +0200
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-06 23:57 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 12:00 -0400
              Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 18:29 +0100
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 14:02 -0400
                Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 01:09 +0100
                Re: char to decimal Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-07 00:18 +0000
                Re: char to decimal Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-06 21:30 -0400
  Re: char to decimal Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-04 22:03 -0700
    Re: char to decimal "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-05-05 01:14 -0700
    Re: char to decimal Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 16:15 +0100

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