Re: Which Characters are Bad?

On Apr 5, 10:04 am, Charlie-Boo <shymath...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When we examine a string, a flag will go off iff the string has any
bad characters in it. I have a few strings to examine. How can I
tell which characters in the entire alphabet are bad? Or maybe bad?
Or good? Or maybe good? Or what?

Are you talking about character encoding, parsing, what?
What sense of "bad" do you mean?

For instance, when I read your arxiv paper on CBL, I get
stuff like this:

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We introduce eight universal Rules of Inference:

NOT P à ~P

AND P , Q à P ^ Q

OR P , Q à P v Q

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Those "à" characters seem like some sort of character encoding
flaw to me.


Marshall
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