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RFC 20: In the Extended ASCII CODE character Set, True Zero is...

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Comment by Eugene Terrell
Submitted on 4/30/2006
Related RFC: RFC 20
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In the Extended ASCII CODE character Set, True Zero is defined as the Null Set Character, ' Ų '. However, because Binary equivalent of ' 1 ' is ' 00 ', I believe that it would beeasier if the Character Set werechanged to represent the Binary equivalent of ' 1 ' as ' 0 ', asopposed to '00', because '00' is 2Bits and '0' is '1' Bit. In otherwords, when typing using either a TypeWriter or the Key Board of the Computer,typing a Zero would generate the Null Set Character ' Ų ', instead of ' 0 '.