"Ascii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in ASCII, cannot display accented characters, a few of which were used in this book. The following details how these characters have ...
— Stories of New Jersey • Frank Richard Stockton
... and a false reading, the common version has "the pains of death," instead of "the chains of the under world." The sense requires the latter. Besides, numerous manuscripts read [non ASCII characters]. See, furthermore, Rosenmuller's thorough criticism in loc. Likewise see Robinson's New ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... /interj./ 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream *Yo!*). An appropriate response to {ping} or {ENQ}. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in "Ack pffft!" Semi-humorous. Generally ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... been transliterated using Beta-code. Most of the Hebrew words and characters are transliterated in the text by the author; those that were not transliterated by the author have been transliterate in the ASCII version.] ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey
... The printed book presented the names of newspapers and ships in italics, but italics are not available in plain ASCII ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler |
