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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by julienfr112 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @04:32PM (#26773136)
Is ASCII really stîll âlîve ?
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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by hyakosm on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:04PM (#26773411)
ASCII is still alive in UTF-8 and other extended encoding systems. :)
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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by Ekaros on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:09PM (#26773451)
I wonder if there is any systems using 7-bit ascii in production... Or extended code pages...
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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by lanstin on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:31PM (#26773634)
EBCDIC is still in use in production.
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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by woliveirajr on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:23AM (#26776040)
Base64 for the win....
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