Appendix C. Powers of 2 and ISO 8859

Powers of 2 and ISO 8859

Refer to Table C-1 for Powers of 2

With n bits in integer two’s complement format, you can count:

unsigned from 0 to (one less than 2n)

signed from -2n-1 to (one less than 2n-1)

Refer to Table C-2 for ISO 8859

Characters 0x0 to 0x1F are the C0 (control) characters, defined in ISO/IEC 6429:1992

Characters 0x20 to 0x7E are the G0 graphics characters of the 7-bit code set defined in ISO/IEC 646-1991(E)—essentially the 7-bit ASCII characters.

Characters 0x80 to 0x9F are the C1 (control) characters, defined in ISO/IEC 6429:1992

The unshaded characters comprise the Latin-1 code set defined in ISO/IEC 8859-1:1987 though the ...

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