[Javascript] Re: Charset (sort-of OFF_TOPIC for js)

[Scott Reynen]

On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Brian L. Matthews wrote:

> ASCII's a 7-bit encoding, so 192 isn't even a valid ASCII  
> character. Maybe you meant Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)? And if you did,  
> it's not "only" Latin-1, 192 is the same in Latin-3 and Latin-5 and  
> probably a bunch of other encodings. Although your point that it's  
> only the first half of a UTF-8 character is correct.

Yeah, Tedd also pointed this out in a private email.  There's a nice  
chart here demonstrating the wide variance of any given byte value  
just within the various ISO 8859 encodings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859

Peace,
Scott