Re: Using hex numbers considered a geek attitude

[DougEwell2]

In a message dated 2001-05-03 11:09:38 Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>  Special characters on PCs have been entered in this fashion
>  since before Windows, and this might have been one of the
>  reasons that decimal numbers were originally chosen for
>  HTML notation -- users already had the decimal numbers
>  of their commonly used special characters memorized.

Memorizing the 128 8-bit characters above ASCII is decimal was (relatively) 
not too difficult.  Even today, when typing � � � � �, I am likely to use 
Alt+160, Alt+130, Alt+161, Alt+162, and Alt+163 repectively (as I just did).  
Doing this with the whole BMP is quite another matter.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California