Re: What is this character?

Gerry wrote: 
I am using VC++ 6. In a text processing application, the input file appears
to contain characters at the end of each line that the debugger describes
as -51 'I', where the 'I' has an acute accent on top.

Can anyone explain what this character is. It does not appear in the list of
ASCII character codes.

You probably need to look in "Extended ASCII". -51 is a signed equivalent to (unsigned char)205, which in extended ASCII is the Í (can you see it?).
The characters with unsigned values beyond 127 (128..255) have negative
values when represented with 'char' probably because by default the 'char'
type in your compiler is signed.

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