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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: char to decimal
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Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> 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.
> What value does that spec indicate to transmit, say, the characters 'æ' or 
> 'À', Dirk?

Or for this one 'µ' (\u00b5) or perhaps that one 'μ' (\u03bc) ? :)
I tend to assume, that the mentioned 'someone else' either just didn't
think of international letters, or thought of those and consciously
discarded them as irrelevant for this particular packet i/f...

PS: My guess is, that i/f means interface.