Re: reinventing ASCII?

"Charlie Gordon" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>I'd make '0' - '9' and 'A' - 'Z' contiguous ;)
>Do you mean '9' + 1 == 'A' ?

  Some aspects of the original design where:

      - Digits and symbols they are usually paired with 
        on a keyboard should differ only by one 
        bit in order to simplify keyboard design
        (i.e., »1!«, »3#«, »4$«, and so on).

      - All (uppercase) letters should reside within 
        a single 5-bit block.

      - The lowest four bits of a digit should represent
        its value.

      - Due to technical reasons, »0000000« and »1111111«
        had to be control codes (NUL and DEL, respectively). 
        Therefore, the outer regions of the code were used 
        for control codes, while printable characters were 
        placed in the middle.