Re: CAtlRegExp crashes with pound sign!

From: Alexander Nickolov (agnickolov_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:59:24 -0700

Well, technically they are called Extended ASCII characters and
there are numerous Extended ASCII code pages. The one people
usually think of is Windows-1252, aka Latin I. I prefer UNICODE
myself, for 8-bit characters that'd be UTF-8.

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"Simon Trew" <noneofyour@business.guv> wrote in message 
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> "Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>> "Patty O'Dors" <PattyODors@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F47EB0F6-D687-4E90-A897-60F392B13358@microsoft.com
>> > The pound sign is in my experience the only common character that
>> > causes unicode beef. Presumably it's because we're considered
>> > 'foreign'.
>>
>> No, it's because it has an Ascii code in the upper half of the table
>> (above 0x7F).
>
> Of course, as you yourself have pointed out before, ASCII does not define
> characters above 0x7F.
>
> 


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