Re: IsTextUnicode and Windows 98

From: Tom Widmer (tom_usenet_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:35:48 +0100

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:40:40 +0200, "George Ionescu"
<geoionescu@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> CHeck if each char is between 0 and 127.
>
>Why? Isn't, for example, 200 (È) a *valid* ASCII char code?

No, ASCII usually refers to US-ASCII, which is a 7-bit encoding.
Latin-1 (aka ISO 8859-1, where 200 (È) is defined) is an ASCII
extension. The first 128 UNICODE character codes are the same as those
in US-ASCII. Actually, I have a feeling that the first 256 codes
equate to Latin-1.

Tom

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