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I would be very interested in what happens if {{keypress|Alt|0}}{{keypress|9|6|0|chain=}}, ie with a zero prefix, is typed "in Notepad or in the Wiki edit box". This may cause 192 to be chosen from the ANSI code page and get {{char|À}}. Or it might cause Unicode to be used.
[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 16:23, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
:"The basic question", according to Spitzak, "is why he started talking about 448". I have answered that. I switched my discussion from 192 to 448 because "with 448, I needed only to exhibit the one symbol {{char|ǀ}} rather than both {{char|└}} and {{char|À}}." I was trying to make things simpler, but clearly I failed.
:I am now retired, but I worked in computers 1972 –2003 and don't recall any talk of numbers turning into each other, which Spitzak seems unable either to avoid or to define. This is unnecessary for our purposes, however, as {{u|John Maynard Friedman}} has provided an excellent statement of the processes under consideration, not once using the troublesome phrase "turns into" or mentioning moduli as being "applied". I suggest that we leave it at that.
:In Notepad, {{keypress|Alt|0}}{{keypress|9|6|0|chain=}} yields {{char|À}}, from the Windows code page. As the section {{section link|Windows_code_page#ANSI_code_page}} notes, these are officially known as "Windows" not "ANSI" code pages. According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20181208141313/https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964658.aspx#a MSDN], the latter "is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community." I suggest avoiding misnomers.
:[[User:Peter M. Brown|Peter Brown]] ([[User talk:Peter M. Brown|talk]]) 19:25, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
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