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+# $EPIC: ascii.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/29 20:58:41 jnelson Exp $
+======Synopsis:======
+$[[ascii]](<character list>)
+======Technical:======
+The [[ascii]] function converts a sequence of characters into a word list
+of codepoints.  Because EPIC only supports latin-1 at this time, all of
+the codepoints are 0 to 255 (strictly 1 byte per codepoint).  If in the
+future epic supports UTF8 or something like that, codepoints greater than
+might be returned.
+You can use the [[chr]] function to convert a word list of codepoints into
+a sequence of characters.  The same caveats about encoding applies.
+By definition, the [[ascii]] and [[chr]] functions are symmetrically
+reverse operations of each other.
+======Examples:======
+<file>
+/* assume iso8859-1 character set */
+$ascii(abcABC)                     returns "97 98 99 65 66 67"
+$chr($ascii(abcABC))               returns "abcABC"
+</file>
+======Other Notes:======
+Some characters with the high bit set will return negative numeric
+values from $__ascii__().  Add 256 to this negative value to get its
+positive equivalent.  The $__chr__() function will accept either.