How do You Percieve ASCII?
May 11th 2008 07:02
How do you percieve ascii?
For the past week or so I have been trying to find out why this piece of code refuses to display on another site (not Orble! ) for which I am trying to finish an article on using special characters that are not on the keyboard and how to hopefully get them showing in a document or on a wesite!
& # x 5 B 5 7 should give me the Chinese character Zi 字
I contacted this sites support team and got a answer in which the tech support person described ascii and the western european charset as "English characters"
not ascii not european not roman but ENGLISH?
OOOH! Monolingual bias!?
The other explanation I got was a image the site doesnt use iframes tags so graphics cant be dispalyed inside certain modules / frames.
Duh this is hexadecimal code that should display a character from the Unihan subset of UNICODE? Unicode symols are graphics?
Technogurus of Orble and others I would be fascinated to learn your opinions and comments on this technical problem - the character not displaying or on ascii or the iso western european subset or unihan or unicode?
Frankly I think describing ascii as "english characters" demonstrates that the sooner most sites and servers and computers are Unicode compliant the better?
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