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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: compute ISBN-10, char-to-int?
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:47:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a7bdgy50.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvsgp8jamn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> (- c ?0) and (+ n ?0) work not just with
> Unicode code points, but with code points in
> any character set that is sane enough to put
> the digits from 0 to 9 consecutively in this
> order. That's the case in ASCII, EBCDIC, and
> all other charsets I know.

EBCDIC = Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code

http://www.barrcentral.com/help/3270/appendix_b._ascii_and_ebcdic_tables.htm?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTptvPpcTkAhWqpIsKHVtRCRgQ9QF6BAgLEAI
    
Seems to have something to do with IBM...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-05  1:32 compute ISBN-10, char-to-int? Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-09-05  6:44 ` tomas
2019-09-05 17:28   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-09-05 18:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-05 19:03     ` tomas
2019-09-05 19:16       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-09-06  6:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-06  8:32           ` tomas
2019-09-06 15:07             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-09-06 18:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-07 17:13       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-07 17:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-07 17:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-07 18:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-07 19:01               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-09 17:47         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2019-09-10  1:20           ` Perry Smith

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