Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 16 hours agoWhy Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? – Tyler Hillerytylerhillery.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down13
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWhy Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? – Tyler Hillerytylerhillery.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square1linkfedilink
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agotl;dr: they padded the alphabet with some punctuation to round it out to 32 to allow some bitwise manipulation
tl;dr: they padded the alphabet with some punctuation to round it out to 32 to allow some bitwise manipulation