[tw] : Another Great Net Business Venture: ASCII Codes!

“Another Great Net Business Venture: ASCII Codes!”
From:	Seth Dillingham	In Response To:	Top of Thread.
Date Posted:	Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:27:29 PM	Replies:	2

Enclosures:	None.

Today a customer mentioned in an email that his Conversant site's template was displaying a box at the top of the page, and that he believed it was caused by a macro.

However, it turned out that the editor he used to edit the template had inserted ASCII character 03. I have no idea why. On the Mac, if a font doesn't have any way to draw a certain character, it will often be displayed as a small rectangle. ASCII character 03 is one such character. (Other fonts will not display the character at all.)

I wasn't sure what 03 was, so I went looking (in Google, of course) for an ASCII table. (That was less work than walking over to my bookshelves!)

It's a little-used code for "end of text". Blah.

The funny part is where I found this information: www.asciitable.com.

It's a one-page web site with... well, you know what it has.

On the other hand, it has advertising. How does a site like that generate enough traffic to warrant ads?!?

Discussion Thread:

Re: Another Great Net Business Venture: ASCII Codes! (by Mark Morgan at 1/30/2002)

Better link: I used BBTidy with BBEdit light. I love the thing--one-click valid code. Beautiful! I honestly
- Re: Another Great Net Business Venture: ASCII Codes! (by Mark Morgan at 1/31/2002)
  
  I love the thing--one-click valid code. Beautiful! And, as you pointed out, apparently one-click invisible
Not "Little Used"... It's "Little Known" (by Seth Dillingham at 1/30/2002)

Earlier I said: > It's a little-used code for "end of text". Blah. Brian Andresen pointed out that

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