Extended ASCII isn't a proper term either. ASCII is 7-bits, that's all. There's no 8-bit extension to ASCII. Extended ASCII is really more like "some 8-bit encoding that shares the first 127 values with ASCII" -- and there are plenty of such encodings.
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Wishing all programmers Manÿ Happÿ Returns of the Daÿ and Maÿ each one of those Returns compile successfullÿ
ÿ : 256th ascii character (should henceforth be the Programmers' day symbol)
correction: Extended ASCII character per http://www.ascii-code.com/
Nit-pick: that's not an ASCII character at all, since ASCII is a 7-bit encoding it does not contain a code point with the value 255 (or 256).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%B8#Character_encodings.
There are only 128 ASCII characters.
You're right, I should have said Extended ASCII
Extended ASCII isn't a proper term either. ASCII is 7-bits, that's all. There's no 8-bit extension to ASCII. Extended ASCII is really more like "some 8-bit encoding that shares the first 127 values with ASCII" -- and there are plenty of such encodings.
On Easter we hunt for eggs.
On Halloween we dress in costumes.
On Festivus we air grievances and perform feats of strength.
On Programmer's Day? We argue about the naming of things!
(Though we have to figure out how to turn it into a drinking game.)
How about: λ