Re: What is PeekChar() ???

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From: Morten Wennevik (MortenWennevik_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:02:58 +0100

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:25:45 -0000, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <skeet@pobox.com>
wrote:

> Morten Wennevik <MortenWennevik@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hard to say. If the text could be in different encodings you would
>> probably benefit from using Unicode or UTF8. If you only need the
>> standard default extended English ascii you could get that specific
>> encoding with
>> Encoding e = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252");
>> Encoding e = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
>> I believe the code table are the same for these two code pages.
>
> No they're not - they differ between 128 and 140.
>

I see. Which is considered the standard western codepage? Or is the
standard something that differs between europe and usa? 

-- 
Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

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