>Typically they start with the byte \u00b1 called the ASCII ESC character. ESC is the 27th ASCII character.
27 ..... b1 ..... I am amazed this person wrote an entire article and never once noticed the absurdity.
27 ..... b1 ..... I am amazed this person wrote an entire article and never once noticed the absurdity.
The absurdity that a number less than 32 would start with b in hex instead of 1.
The absurdity of making this mistake consistently in a post about diligently fixing bugs and not proofreading or checking it.
How does one not notice this?
> How does one not notice this?
coz people skip funny magic numbers when reading
Trivially easily?
Wait 'til you hear about the C1 control set (§5.3 in the current version of ECMA-48).
> Gen z programmers, not even once.
I know I shouldn't even reply to this, but I'm old enough that I have used physical 8-bit ASCII terminals with C1 controls (and ISO 2022 page switching).
Thanks for the feedback.
If I see 345,345,345+123,123,123=578,578,578,578 I probably wouldn't notice that this is incorrect but once I decide to really look at it the three errors are obvious.
These aren't just funny codes, there is a whole mindset behind it. ASCII being grouped in chunks of 32. Being able to flip between uppercase and lowercase by flipping a bit. The history of upper 8-bit codepages in DOS.
And I didn't even comment on the fact that your "byte" uses 16-bit notation.