[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:42:21 -0500, JF Mezei wrote:

> MetaEd wrote:
>> On Nov 12, 10:00 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> =48=50 =53=75=63=6B=73
>> 
>> 054754 031566 025723 101703 073314 034775 000050 104700 127400
> 
> 
> You should give us a hint on character encoding here. In Hex/ascii there
> are too many unprintable characters. In octal, the second characxter is
> above 256, which would imply 2 byte values and UTF.

First of all, it doesn't look like character encoding to me anyway; I'll 
keave it as an exercise...

But even if it were, you're talking about the FIRST character, since it 
would probably be LSB first. And that isn't 754, it's 354; only 8 bits 
are used, and 754 spans 9. And 354 is less than 256 decimal...



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