Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 24 days agoWhy Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? – Tyler Hillerytylerhillery.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down13
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkWhy Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? – Tyler Hillerytylerhillery.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square1linkfedilink
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·24 days 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