In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/16/2007
at 11:34 PM, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Unless it's been updated recently, OPTCD=Q is strict 128 bit ASCII.
ASCII only contains code points 0-127.
>If you have diacriticals or other extended representations
Then it's not ASCII, and you need to find a translation for whatever
it is.
>they'll fall into the bit bucket.
The last time I looked, that was a problem even for characters that
were ASCII. :-(
>OCOPY probably be safer.
Safer and more flexible to boot.
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