Exended ASCII and code pages [was Re: for / while else doesn't make sense]

Jussi Piitulainen jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Fri May 27 01:03:50 EDT 2016


Erik writes:

> On 26/05/16 08:21, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>> UTF-8 ASCII is nice
>>
>> UTF-16 ASCII is weird.
>
> I am dumbstruck.

I'm joking, of course.

But those statements do make sense when one knows to distinguish a
character set from its encoding as bytes, and then the UTF-8 encoding of
ASCII really is nice.

Where I live, anyway :)



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