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From: Mike Gonta on 11 Apr 2007 09:44 In English hexadecimal notation uses the first 6 characters of the Latin character set ( A-F ) to represent the values 10 to 15. If your native language uses a different character set, for example Cyrillic or Greek, do you use the first 6 characters of that set or: Is hex an ascii thing? Mike Gonta look and see - many look but few see
From: Wolfgang Kern on 11 Apr 2007 12:29 "Mike Gonta" asked: > In English hexadecimal notation uses the first 6 characters of the > Latin character set ( A-F ) to represent the values 10 to 15. > If your native language uses a different character set, for example > Cyrillic or Greek, do you use the first 6 characters of that set or: > > Is hex an ascii thing? I'm not Greek, but I think also Greek and Russian programmers use ASCII a..f (or A..F) in hexadecimal notations. so: Yes. __ wolfgang
From: [Jongware] on 11 Apr 2007 12:07 "Wolfgang Kern" <nowhere(a)nevernet.at> wrote in message news:evivrb$lsm$1(a)newsreader2.utanet.at... > > "Mike Gonta" asked: > >> In English hexadecimal notation uses the first 6 characters of the >> Latin character set ( A-F ) to represent the values 10 to 15. >> If your native language uses a different character set, for example >> Cyrillic or Greek, do you use the first 6 characters of that set or: >> >> Is hex an ascii thing? > > I'm not Greek, but I think also Greek and Russian programmers > use ASCII a..f (or A..F) in hexadecimal notations. > > so: Yes. > __ > wolfgang Besides, if it was used in (for example) an assembly source, they would need a "localized" version of atoi to correctly convert it to (binary) decimal in their assembler. A minor note is that the order of characters is a bit different. In Greek, the first 5 characters are alpha,beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, theta, so 0x1G would equal 19 (decimal). I must admit I have no idea if non-Latin programmers use their own alphabet-keyed keyboards to program. [Jw]
From: Mike Gonta on 11 Apr 2007 12:07 "Wolfgang Kern" <nowh...(a)nevernet.at> wrote: > I'm not Greek, but I think also Greek and Russian programmers > use ASCII a..f (or A..F) in hexadecimal notations. > > so: Yes. I'm not Greek, but I use the ocassional Greek letter in mathematical notion. Are we using ASCII as a convention or due to the lack of Unicode support in programming. Mike Gonta look and see - many look but few see
From: Mike Gonta on 11 Apr 2007 12:16
"[Jongware]" <sorry(a)no_spam.plz> wrote: > Besides, if it was used in (for example) an assembly source, they would need > a "localized" version of atoi to correctly convert it to (binary) decimal in > their assembler. How about Unicode support? > A minor note is that the order of characters is a bit different. In Greek, > the first 5 characters are alpha,beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, theta, so 0x1G > would equal 19 (decimal). There is no "G" in the Greek alphabet. > I must admit I have no idea if non-Latin programmers use their own > alphabet-keyed keyboards to program. None the less, thank you for your feedback. Mike Gonta look and see - many look but few see |