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[–] cgtjsiwy@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] NateSwift@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Why is it better?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

No, I don't think you did.

[–] pileghoff@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with man ascii?

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone -2 points 1 year ago

What’s wrong with EBCDIC?

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago

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