Why are non-printable ASCII characters actually printable? -


characters, not alphanumeric or punctuation termed not printable:

codes 20hex 7ehex, known printable characters

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so why e.g. 005 representable (and represented clubs)?

most of original set of ascii control characters no longer useful, many different vendors have recycled them additional graphic characters, dingbats in table. however, such assignments nonstandard, , incompatible each other. if can, it's better use official unicode codepoints these characters. (similar things have been done additional block of control characters in high half of iso 8859.x standards, obsolete @ time specified. again, use official unicode codepoints.)

the tiny print @ bottom of table appears "copyright 1982 leading edge computer products, inc." company maker of ibm pc clones, , presumably custom ascii extension. should pay attention assignments 000-031 , 127 in table if you're writing software convert files produced on specific computers more modern format.


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