TC wrote:
>> Shouldn't that technically be "?"? It's just that the original ASCII 
>> standard included "^" (why?) but not "?". Or that's how I heard it. In 
>> books it's usually written as a superscript or as "?", but never, ever as 
>> "^" except in programming languages...
> 
> My VIC 20 had the ? - which was very useful when programming any game with 
> ASCII graphics. It made a nice missile. ;-) 

...so I'm guessing there was some kind of encoding error with this post. 
But I get what you're saying anyway. ;-)

I seem to recall that several 8-bit home computers had codes 128-255 
identical to codes 0-127, but with the colours inverted.

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