On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Nigel Peck wrote:

> > Those two characters are ISO-8859-1 characters with character codes >
> 128
>
> Shouldn't that be < 128 (for backtick and single quote)?
>
> What's the deal with UTF-8.

It's �50. No offers.

> Am I correct that the ASCII codes from 0 -
> 127 (decimal) are the same as in iso-8859-1 which has 256 characters (8
> bits not 7) but UTF-8 is only the same for the first 128 (i.e. ASCII
> only).

Right. For 0-127 ASCII == iso-8859-1 == Unicode.

> And when people say ANSI with reference to character sets do they mean
> ASCII or iso-8859-1?

Probably iso-8859-*

> One more question, what's iso-8859-15?

It's an extended version if 8859-1 with things like the Euro symbol in.

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