[D66] Boziogarman: ASCII/ECMA-6 hermeneutics

[René Oudeweg]

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_Boziogarman: ASCII/ECMA-6 hermeneutics of the 7-Bit coded Character Set___

Poging tot een hermeneutische deconstructie van de ASCII/ECMA-6 code set


*) structure of the 7 bit code set

C0 set:  control
G0 set:  graphic chaos (printable characters)

C0 set starts with the NUL character (todays usage to delimite strings 
in programming languages)


1) A short philosophy of Information Interchange:

/Character Codes want to "control graphic chaos" with codepoint 
structuralism. Graphic chaos has the intention to represent the world of 
language and its boundaries with scripts containing glyphs./

2) of course chaos can not be controlled, only generated...

3) The 7 bit code set can be represented as a binary string if you 
reverse the characters from *DEL -> NUL* and replace the control 
characters with their (unicode) mnemonics:

␡~}|{zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba`_^]\[ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA@?>=<;:9876543210/.-,+*)('&%$#"! 
␟ ␞ ␝ ␜ ␛ ␚ ␙ ␘ ␗ ␖ ␕ ␔ ␓ ␒ ␑ ␐ ␏ ␎ ␍ ␌ ␋ ␊ ␉ ␈ ␇ ␆ ␅ ␄ ␃ ␂ ␁ ␀

5) In the ASCII/ECMA-6 standard there are 33 control characters, such as 
code 7, *BEL*, which rings a terminal bell.

$ describe "BEL" en --exact
"BEL" may refer to:
Belgium
bell character
Belarusian language
Bharat Electronics Limited
Bellingham (Amtrak station)
Behind Enemy Lines (disambiguation)
Val de Cães International Airport
Brussels Airlines
Bel (disambiguation)
Bell (disambiguation)
Belle (disambiguation)

$ describe "Bel (unit)" en --exact
en:
Decibel
The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one 
tenth of a bel (B). It expresses the ratio of two values of a power or 
root-power quantity on a logarithmic scale. Two signals whose levels 
differ by one decibel have a power ratio of 101/10 (approximately 1.26) 
or root-power ratio of 101⁄20 (approximately 1.12).The unit expresses a 
relative change or an absolute value. In the latter case, the numeric 
value expresses the ratio of a value to a fixed reference value; when 
used in this way, the unit symbol is often suffixed with letter codes 
that indicate the reference value. For example, for the reference value 
of 1 volt, a common suffix is "V" (e.g., "20 dBV").Two principal types 
of scaling of the decibel are in common use. When expressing a power 
ratio, it is defined as ten times the logarithm in base 10. That is, a 
change in power by a factor of 10 corresponds to a 10 dB change in 
level. When expressing root-power quantities, a change in amplitude by a 
factor of 10 corresponds to a 20 dB change in level. The decibel scales 
differ by a factor of two, so that the related power and root-power 
levels change by the same value in linear systems, where power is 
proportional to the square of amplitude.
The definition of the decibel originated in the measurement of 
transmission loss and power in telephony of the early 20th century in 
the Bell System in the United States. The bel was named in honor of 
Alexander Graham Bell, but the bel is seldom used. Instead, the decibel 
is used for a wide variety of measurements in science and engineering, 
most prominently in acoustics, electronics, and control theory. In 
electronics, the gains of amplifiers, attenuation of signals, and 
signal-to-noise ratios are often expressed in decibels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel

$ describe "DEL" en --exact
"Del (disambiguation)" may refer to:
∂
Dynamic epistemic logic
Delaware
Delphinus
delegate
Del (given name)
Del Shannon
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Del Fontaine
Del Boy
Del Dingle
Animal Crossing
PBS Kids
Lua programming language
Del (command)
del
Delete character
Delete key
Department for Employment and Learning
Deutsche Eishockey Liga
DNA Encoded Chemical Library
Indira Gandhi International Airport
Delaware languages
3rd Eye Vision
DEL2
Deel (disambiguation)
Dell (disambiguation)

6) Internet protocols are designed with use of ASCII characters (RFC)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.txt

     The first Internet standard RFC is RFC 20 from V.G. Cerf

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.pdf

     Last paragraph is paragraph 6.5


RFC 20 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc20> a.k.a. STD 80 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/std80> 	ASCII 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.txt>, PDF 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/pdfrfc/rfc20.txt.pdf>, PDF with Images 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.pdf>, HTML 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.html>, HTML with inline errata 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/inline-errata/rfc20.html> 	ASCII format 
for network interchange 	V.G. Cerf 	October 1969 	Errata 
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc20> 	Internet Standard (changed 
from Unknown January 2015 
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/KIbuNLhChScLC2JBTmFOjj8fT78>) 



$ describe "V.G. Cerf" en
en:
Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf  (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer 
and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this 
title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary 
degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the 
Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize, and 
membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf


7) The character DELETE can mean DEL-ETE (delete the summer) or DELITE 
(De elite)

     DEL can also mean D-E-L or DE.L (de L, Duitsland en Limburg of DE 
LIJST)

    Anagrams:

DLE <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/DLE#English>, EDL 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/EDL#English>, LDE 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LDE#English>, LED 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LED#English>, eld 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eld#English>, led 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/led#English>

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/del


8) The question to ´be' or not to 'be'  can be paraphrased as:

     The 1st question is to BEL or not to BEL

     The 2nd question is to DEL or not to DEL


9) Lekker BELangrijk...


R.O.


Ref:


7-Bit coded Character Set:
https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-6_6th_edition_december_1991.pdf

pages: 32

Control Functions for Coded Character Sets:
https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-48_5th_edition_june_1991.pdf

pages: 108

Character Code Structure and Extension Techniques:
https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-35_6th_edition_december_1994.pdf

pages: 66


6.5Character DELETE
The acronym of the character DELETE is DEL and it is represented by bit 
combination 7/15. DEL was
originally used to erase or obliterate an erroneous or unwanted 
character in punched tape. DEL may be used
for *media-fill or time-fill.* DEL characters may be inserted into, or 
removed from, a data stream without
affecting the information content of that stream, but such action may 
affect the information layout and/or the
control of equipment.

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