Personally, I find them hot. Blond Hair, Pink Nipples. They’re usually taller. Blah.
Jamaicans? What’s so special about them?
Did anyone find my stunt funny?
Hey, your epidermis is showing!
catsix: OK, I guess we’re trying to say the same thing. I was focusing on the codepoints, you were focusing on the fact that parity checking was part of the original definition.
How about this: ASCII is transmitted and stored as an eight-bit code, but seven bits are actually used to represent the 128 characters in standard ASCII. (Only codepoints 0-127 are defined. The high-order bit, which would be later used to double the size of the codepage in various ASCII extensions, was used as a parity check.)
As for American English being representable in seven-bit ASCII: it isn’t. With all of the codepoints they assigned to control codes and such, they had to leave out the cent symbol (included in some EBCDIC code pages) and the few accented characters English uses (the i with diaeresis in naïve and the o with diaeresis in coöperate). As those symbols are part of American English, ASCII fails to fully represent the most limited of the Western alphabets. That is why the extensions became popular, and that is why we’re having this discussion now.
Finnish Dude in the Audience: “Whipping Post!”
Frank Zappa: Say that again, please?
Finnish Dude: “Whipping Post!”
FZ: “Whipping Post”? OK, just a second… (Do you know that?) Oh sorry, we don’t know that one. Anything else? Hum me a few bars of it, please – just show me how it goes, please. Just sing, sing me “Whipping Post,” and then maybe we’ll play it with you.
Dude: Ooh-ooh-ooh…
FZ: Thank you very much. And now… Judging from the way you sang it, it must be a John Cage composition.
I don’t know why but when I first saw this thread, I read the title as “Thank you, Drunk Churchgoer…”
Derleth, it appears that we are saying the same thing.
As for those accented characters, I don’t think I can even recall the last time I saw it written in any way other than ‘cooperate’.
shrug
All I know is, I’d never want to have to memorize Unicode. :;
There were so many guys doing this at a No Doubt concert I went to. Too bad it was too crowded to smack them. I mean, really, I think we can all agree she’s not going to flash us, so what, are you trying to impress us by letting us know that you, a male, think Gwen Stefani is attractive?! Wowwwww!
Smirk!! I just KNEW you’d posted birds!!! Love it.
Plus they’re cute, I love birds!
SHOW US YOUR TABERNACLE!
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That’s really funny, cause the show was at a club in Atlanta called the Tabernacle. 
The show was the last night of the Regina Spektor-Kings of Leon-The Strokes tour. The show was good. But the audience sucked.:rolleyes:
Does anyone else have that Budweiser commercial in their heads:
[bad big hair rock singer guy] "Here’s to you, Mr. Drunk Concertgoer! You are holding up the lighter for the encore! (holding up the lighter You’re burning your own thumb. (* he’s burning his thumb!* You’re shouting out “Free Bird” for all of America to hear. Like a bird that will not change [/bad big hair rock singer guy]
SHOW US YOUR CUBITS!!!
“And why? Do you really love Freebird that much?! No! You’re upholding a fine American tradition of yelling…just to yell.”