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 14:02:59 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <92ea64F3avU1@mid.individual.net> <92ft5pFjeiU1@mid.individual.net> <92hu9kFh10U2@mid.individual.net> <92ipf8F72qU1@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 rDp+AkemyK2rbcH98OLa4eiJg49PWQP+4SB4BQ/RBL0NfPLYJCukIYZYvQYoFm86eZ9mkukqPM9jJ6WKuzojgg== NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 18:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="d11YZdoels14ZA6d3JykAUHgQlUQBXC+TVXRGGauCJLztuJvZt6O6IYL07L4x2+fuTwUYUdFQr2lSc0bEQ6wyx7Z7XOOydt4AZMUQ8TuoeAnT5NNn4SbSKdO9yEZijlP"; 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: <92ipf8F72qU1@mid.individual.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:5CdVFQhgxEzmN3Kp5FSUOCNUQQY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3706 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. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg