Creating my own ASCII characters

[gregquinn]

Hi,

Is there any way to create my own ascii characters?

i.e I would like for example to create a set of characters that can mean different words.

i.e

# - Hello

Where # would be my custom ASCII character.
I would then write a software app that could understand my custom ASCII set.

Thanks

 

[Diancecht]

I think you need to ellaborate a little bit more.

To my understanding, ASCII is just a specification and defines a set of characters. The meaning you give it to them is up to you.

In fact "Hola" means "Hello" for me and it's ASCII too.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[HyperEngineer]

ASCII is just a character set, as Dian stated, representation of the numbers 0 to 127. The extended character set is from 128 to 255. What you do with them is up to you. If you choose to print them, they will print according to the current selected font. Now if you want to do your own font, that's a different story. As far as the ASCII characters, they are defined by the current font which gives a graphic representation of the integer number.

In your case '#' is Hello, just means you want the integer 35 to represent Hello.

HyperEngineer
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