[Tutor] String encoding

[Prasad, Ramit]

>Think about it this way... if I gave you a block of data as hex bytes:
>
>240F91BC03...FF90120078CD45
>
>and then asked you whether that was a bitmap image or a sound file or 
>something else, how could you tell? It's just *bytes*, it could be anything.

Yes, but if you give me data and then tell me it is a sound file then I might be able to reverse engineer or reconstruct it. I know what the character does/should look like. I just need the equivalent to the ASCII table for the various encodings; once I have the table I can compare different characters at \311 and see if they are the correct character. I have not been able to find an encoding table (other than ASCII).

Ramit


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