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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-03-15 11:25:32 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-03-15 11:25:32 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex index 0904849..152b1bf 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ character type; a character is represented by a string of one element. Characters represent (at least) 8-bit bytes. The built-in functions \verb@chr()@ and \verb@ord()@ convert between characters and nonnegative integers representing the byte values. -Bytes with the values 0-127 represent the corresponding ASCII values. +Bytes with the values 0-127 represent the corresponding \ASCII{} values. The string data type is also used to represent arrays of bytes, e.g. to hold data read from a file. \obindex{string} @@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ to hold data read from a file. \bifuncindex{chr} \bifuncindex{ord} -(On systems whose native character set is not ASCII, strings may use +(On systems whose native character set is not \ASCII{}, strings may use EBCDIC in their internal representation, provided the functions -\verb@chr()@ and \verb@ord()@ implement a mapping between ASCII and -EBCDIC, and string comparison preserves the ASCII order. +\verb@chr()@ and \verb@ord()@ implement a mapping between \ASCII{} and +EBCDIC, and string comparison preserves the \ASCII{} order. Or perhaps someone can propose a better rule?) \index{ASCII} \index{EBCDIC} |