Re: square root symbol on button

From: Jon A. Cruz (jon_at_joncruz.org)
Date: 03/13/04

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To: David Heath <barcodedave@netscape.net>

    David Heath wrote:
    >
    > By the way Chris, 251 is the ascii extended decimal code. The unicode
    > you suggested works better. Thanks for the heads up.
    >

    No, it's not.

    There's no such thing as "ascii extended".

    ASCII is a 7-bit encoding with values from 0 through 127. Anything else
    (especially anything 8-bit) is some other encoding.

    Saying "ascii extended" is a little bit like saying "Non-C++ computer
    language". It's just about as potentially vague.

    It might be ISO-8859-1, codepage 1252, codepage 850, codepage 437, etc.

    To let you know, Windows usually uses Cp1252, but most DOS and Microsoft
    command prompts use Cp850 on the same computer (which is one reason why
    System.out.println() can have problems).

    Back in Windows 3.1 days Microsoft used to use Cp437.

    Being precise with terminology helps in cases like this.

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