• @cgtjsiwy
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    1210 months ago

    It would be much easier to read if it was actually table, i.e., if hex codes and the characters were separated into their own columns.

  • @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    A good ASCII table makes it easy to find the effects of the Shift and Ctrl keys. Like, at a glance, I should be able to answer questions like “which control character corresponds to ^V?”

    On a Unix terminal, the Shift key zeros out bit 6 and the Ctrl key zeros out both bits 6 and 7. (And the Alt key sets bit 8.)

    In man ascii on Linux, it’s trivial to see that ^V is SYN.

  • @pileghoff
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    710 months ago

    What’s wrong with man ascii?

  • @0x0
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    510 months ago

    How is breaking a decades-old relied-upon standard better?

    • @BatmanAoD
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      1010 months ago

      What do you mean, “breaking”? This isn’t a new encoding scheme, it’s an informational page showing ASCII encoding.

  • CaptainBlagbird
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    10 months ago

    Very useful!

    Would be nice to have an additional checkbox for enabling that a purely numeric input also shows the number characters.

    E.g. with input: “32”

    • Unchecked: Shows just the space character (same behaviour as of now)
    • Checked: Shows the space character, “2” and “3”