From fisseha@cig.mot.com Sat Feb 11 17:10:51 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA04809; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:10:50 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA07331; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:10:49 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA04169; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:10:09 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1) id AA29361; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:10:07 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id RAA10509; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:11:13 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id QAA26312; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:10:05 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199502112210.QAA26312@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: Shaking the Cage To: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu (Daniel Yaqob) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:10:04 -0600 (CST) Cc: fisseha@gerbil.cig.mot.com, ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu In-Reply-To: <199502080435.WAA25119@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Daniel Yaqob" at Feb 7, 95 11:35:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1290 Status: R > > > well, it only seems logical to group all similar types of characters. i > > dont see why you would want any other order. > > Yes it seems very logical -so why isn't this naturaly sensibility found in > ASCII? I assume for some historical reasons of its development. ascii is a relatively new standard. there were a bunch of other proprietary coding standards that individual companies developed (like IBM's EBSIDC). maybe its some left-over thing. but this really isnt a big issue. i say forget about ascii and do what we think is logical. > But yonE, you've missed half of the question. You agree that they should > be grouped (Q-1/2) But in what order should the groups follow (Q-2/2)? > The ordering I put in my last mail on the subject matched the ASCII sequence > and (for punctuation) the August '93 CSES proposal. i thought we already talked about this. anyway, in my opinion, it should be punctuation, numbers, fidel. dont ask me to back it up with anything. this just seems right. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------