Re: [PLUG] Re: VIM and ASCII

[Matthew Ozor <mtozor@yahoo.com>]

I love the it.. "look above the numbers and to the
right of m,l,p"? Can you please tell me were the space
bar is???



look above the numbers and to the right of m,l,p
--- "Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Jeff Weisberg <jaw+plug@tcp4me.com>:
> 
> > "ASCII symbols" are things like "!@#$%^&*()"
> > and are usually found on your keyboard;
> > look above the numbers and to the right of m,l,p
> 
> Not on my Dvorak keyboard, they aren't. ;)
> 
> [...]
> > Are you perhaps looking for a way to enter text in
> > iso-8859-* or unicode?
> 
> To expand on Jeff's point, take a look at the
> following
> links:
> 
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-ASCII
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
> 
> "ASCII" is a 7-bit character set.  Various encodings
> 
> are sometimes improperly called "8-bit ASCII"; this
> is
> a misnomer.  If a character is represented by a
> value
> that is greater than 127, you can reliably claim
> that
> it isn't ASCII.
> 
> Cheers,
> pls
>
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