Re: US-ASCII on Mac OS X

В Втр, 20.07.2004, в 23:39, Peter Eisentraut пишет:
> Perry Smith wrote:
> > Is any code page like iso-8859-1 or IBM850 different in the range
> > that US-ASCII covers (from 0x00 to 0x7f)?  If that is the case, then
> > gnucash could change US-ASCII to practically anything.
>
> Considering the character repertoire (i.e., that abstract set of
> characters provided), then US ASCII is a subset of most character
> repertoires.  But considering the encoding (i.e., the binary
> representation of the characters), then it is not a subset of most
> encodings (e.g., not of UTF-8)

Where's the incompatibility here? I always thought UTF-8 was binary
compatible with ASCII for characters in ASCII.

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