Talk:Generate lower case ASCII alphabet: Difference between revisions

:: Er, no, I don't. &nbsp; It's not the visual appearance of the &nbsp; ''letter'', &nbsp; it's what a particular 8-bit character is presented (shown) as. &nbsp; The hexadecimal value of &nbsp; '''<big>4A</big>''' &nbsp; is shown as ASCII &nbsp; '''<big>J</big>''', &nbsp; or as EBCDIC &nbsp; '''<big>¢</big>'''. &nbsp; So in that narrow sense, the glyph shown is important. &nbsp; That was one reason why I created the Rosetta Code task of &nbsp; ''Idiomatically determine all the lowercase and uppercase letters''. &nbsp; The point is that the program doesn't have to know what the ASCII code is for a (particular) lowercase letter. &nbsp; That's the idiomatic part of the task. &nbsp; The same point can be made for this task. &nbsp; It's this point in mind that I thought the author was making when he said to &nbsp; ''use a reliable style of coding''. &nbsp; Keep in mind, the REXX program that I entered works on both ASCII and EBCDIC (and makes no assumption about the whether or not the lowercase letters are contiguous), and there isn't a need to translate anything, no matter which system is being run on. &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 04:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC)