What extended ASCII character set uses 0x9D?

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Fri Aug 18 03:11:48 EDT 2017


Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Huh?

s/lower/upper/


Marko



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