[Zope-dev] Modifying Splitter.c to search on '+' & '#', and single letter words

Harry Wilkinson harryw@nipltd.com
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:54:56 +0100


http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.htm

Everything you ever wanted to know about ASCII and probably more ;)  I was
looking at it the other day.


Andreas Jung wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
> To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>
> Cc: <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com>; "Steve Alexander"
> <steve@cat-box.net>; "Harry Wilkinson" <harryw@nipltd.com>;
> <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Sent: Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2001 09:37
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Modifying Splitter.c to search on '+' & '#', and
> single letter words
>
> > Andreas Jung wrote:
> > >
> > > As described earlier Python attributes are ASCII only.
> >
> > It's mroe strict than that, they appear to have to be 7 bit ASCII, hence
> any
> > 8-bit characters like the German ones you mentioned cause barfage when
> used as
> > attribute names :-(
> >
>
> I always thought ASCII is 7 bit. 8 bit ASCII is more ISO-8859-X :-)
>
> Andreas
>
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