Unicode/ascii encoding nightmare

[John Machin]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <1162854065.932910.99240 at k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
> >
> >Thomas W wrote:
> >> Ok, I've cleaned up my code abit and it seems as if I've
> >> encoded/decoded myself into a corner ;-). My understanding of unicode
> >> has room for improvement, that's for sure. I got some pointers and
> >> initial code-cleanup seem to have removed some of the strange results I
> >> got, which several of you also pointed out.
> >>
> >> Anyway, thanks for all your replies. I think I can get this thing up
> >> and running with a bit more code tinkering. And I'll read up on some
> >> unicode-docs as well. :-) Thanks again.
> >
> >I strongly suggest that you read the docs *FIRST*, and don't "tinker"
> >at all.
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> <URL: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10102/ur0611d/ur0610d.htm >
> help?

Hi Cameron,
Yes.
Sorry for short reply -- gotta run to bookshop :-)
Cheers,
John