>Read on the web at http://community.scriptmeridian.org/16162
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>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

Yes, I was thinking of ISO-8859-1. But I thought that
UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 were the same. My bad.

Oh, well; live and learn!

- Sam
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