# $EPIC: asciiq.txt,v 1.2 2007/02/15 03:53:35 jnelson Exp $
======Synopsis:======
$[[asciiq]](<[[ctcp encoded]] character list>)

======Technical:======
The [[asciiq]] function performs ctcp dequote on the arguments and then
converts the resulting 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 
255 might be returned.

You can use the [[chrq]] function to convert a word list of codepoints into
a sequence of characters.  The same caveats about encoding applies.

By definition, the [[asciiq]] and [[chrq]] functions are symmetrically
reverse operations of each other.

A ctcp quoted string is nominally 8 bit clean.  You would usually have
one of these strings from [[dcc raw]] that is in quoted mode, from [[chrq]],
or from [[readb]].

======History:======
The [[asciiq]] function first appeared in EPIC4-1.1.8.