I made a better ASCII table (typst.app)
from abobla@lemm.ee to programming@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2023 03:31
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skulbuny@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 2023 04:04 next collapse

Love typst! I’m looking forward to writing RPGs in it some day :)

NateSwift@beehaw.org on 18 Sep 2023 06:02 next collapse

Why is it better?

cgtjsiwy@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2023 06:36 next collapse

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.

morrowind@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 2023 07:06 next collapse

I’m confused, what does this have to so with typst?

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2023 07:46 next collapse

No, I don’t think you did.

pileghoff@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2023 08:39 next collapse

What’s wrong with man ascii?

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone on 18 Sep 2023 08:53 collapse

What’s wrong with EBCDIC?

0x0@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2023 09:29 next collapse

How is breaking a decades-old relied-upon standard better?

BatmanAoD@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2023 15:38 collapse

What do you mean, “breaking”? This isn’t a new encoding scheme, it’s an informational page showing ASCII encoding.

cbarrick@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2023 12:02 next collapse

A good ASCII table makes 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.

CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 2023 20:35 next collapse

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”
argentcorvid@midwest.social on 18 Sep 2023 21:31 collapse

The “octal” toggle replaces decimal, not hexadecimal contrary to its label.