I made a better ASCII table

http://typst.app/tools/ascii-table/

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11 Comments

cgtjsiwy@programming.dev · 12 pts · 2y

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.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

No, I don't think you did.

cbarrick@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

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.

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y

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

pileghoff@programming.dev · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What's wrong with man ascii?

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 2y

What’s wrong with EBCDIC?

0x0@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

BatmanAoD@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y

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

skulbuny@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

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

CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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 · 1 pts · 2y

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