On 2/22/2002 9:45 AM, Samuel Reynolds <sam@spinwardstars.com> wrote:

>UTF-8 is the 8-bit subset of unicode that corresponds to
>the ISO-8859 (Latin-1) "extended ASCII" character set that
>is the Windows default set. Character 0xnn in UTF-8 is
>always character 0x00nn in unicode.

UTF-8 only preserves the ASCII character set. You may be thinking of
ISO-8859-1, in that Unicode chars U+0000 to U+00FF are exactly the
characters in ISO-8859-1. Win1252 is very similar to ISO-8859-1 but not
identical.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.htm
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT

-Brian

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