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Dave Thompson
Not to mention that 'Baudot' (officially IA2, the InternationalAh yes, any computers out there using the 5-bit Baudot code are going
to print complete gibberish.
(Teletype) Alphabet #2): does not have lowercase letters and several
punctuation or 'special' characters that are required in the basic
(minimum) execution character set; has codes for the digits that are
not consecutive as required, as well as being shift-state dependent
which may not be specifically prohibited but doesn't make sense for
the ctype.h functions.
Cards had nine digit rows plus three zone rows, twelve total; usuallySeriously, in IBM EBCDIC, the letters are not contiguous, due to it
being derived from BCD card codes, which as everybody knows, had nine
rows, so the letters are in groups of nine, with seven codes in between
to pad to the next multiple of 16.
only 0 and 1-9 were printed. "Bury me face down, 9 edge first."
- David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net