The next 128 slots are indeed compatible with ISO 8859-1. I was pretty sure the next 128 were compatible too, but I dug around just to be sure, and the first 128 slots are compatible with ASCII as well. "Newer editions of ISO 8859 express characters in terms of their Unicode/UCS names and the U+nnnn notation, effectively causing each part of ISO 8859 to be a Unicode/UCS character encoding scheme that maps a very small subset of the UCS to single 8-bit bytes. The first 256 characters in Unicode and the UCS are identical to those in ISO-8859-1." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859#Relationship_to_Unicode_and_the_UCS
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Kerry Thompson Sent: Tue 8/22/2006 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [c-prog] Re: getch function Brewer, Sean L wrote: > Windows 2000 (I think, maybe NT 4) became the first OS to > use Unicode internally, and in Windows XP and everything > afterwards, UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode) is what is currently used for > character encoding. Yes, NT 4 was Unicode at the core. Most applications at the time, though, still used ISO 8859.x. In fact, a lot of apps still do. That's one of the reasons I'm doing C++ now, not Director. Director still lacks any Unicode support, though I think they're adding it in the next rev. I'm pretty sure UTF-8 is has the same characters as ASCII in the first 128 slots. It may be the same as ANSI for the next 128, but I'm not sure. Anybody know? Cordially, Kerry Thompson To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
