• cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Good ASCII tables make it easy to find the effects of the Shift and Ctrl keys. Like, at a glance, I should be able to answer questions like “which control character corresponds to ^V?”

    On a Unix terminal, the Shift key zeros out bit 6 and the Ctrl key zeros out both bits 6 and 7. (And the alt key sets bit 8.)

    In man ascii on Linux, it’s trivial to see that ^V is SYN.

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    It would be much easier to read if it was actually table, i.e., if hex codes and the characters were separated into their own columns.

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    Very useful!

    Would be nice to have an additional checkbox for enabling that a purely numeric input also shows the number characters.

    E.g. with input: “32”

    • Unchecked: Shows just the space character (same behaviour as of now)
    • Checked: Shows the space character, “2” and “3”
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      What do you mean, “breaking”? This isn’t a new encoding scheme, it’s an informational page showing ASCII encoding.