What extended ASCII character set uses 0x9D?

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Fri Aug 18 02:57:06 EDT 2017


Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
>>> Since, as someone pointed out, there was UTF-8 which had been
>>> run through an ASCII-type lower casing algorithm
>>
>> I spent a few minutes figuring out if some of the mysterious 0x81's
>> could be from ASCII-lower-casing some Unicode combining characters,
>> but the numbers didn't seem to work out. Might still be worth looking
>> for in some other cases.
>
> They can't be from anything like that. Lower-casing in ASCII consists
> of adding 32 (or setting the fifth bit) on certain byte/character
> values.

How about lower-casing?


Marko



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