On 2013-11-12, John Hasler wrote: > Brian Utterback writes: > > However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing > > "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a > > good idea. > > ASCII characters with the high bit turned on are control characters.
No, they're not. Control characters are those with all but the lowest five bits set to 0. > "M-" is a common notation for control as in "M-J" for "control-J". M-J is 0xCA whereas Ctrl-J is 0x0A. Regards, Gary _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
