ASCII question

Why are there so many white spaces in the ASCII characters.
I made a simple ASCII display and it seems like 1/10 characters are blank, so why?

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I meant the one that would result from;

Code:

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int count;

int main()
{
count++;
std::cout<<count<<": "<<(char)count;
}

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The link that cpjust provided still applies.

No, as the the first character is ☺, 2 is ☻... and not all the holes are filled.

Those are glyphs that presumably represent those non-printable characters.

The first 32 or so characters are non-printable. They represent various commands to a telex machine or so, for which it was invented (e.g ring bell etc)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by jerimo

No, as the the first character is ☺, 2 is ☻... and not all the holes are filled.

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I dunno who came up with those, � is quite popular also. Anyway, those just stand in for unprintable things, they probably differ from system to system. As you can see, the ASCII table is not all characters:

7 = BEEP
11 = DEVICE CONTROL 1
etc.