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

[John Warner]

In the 'original;' PC's IBM gave us an extended ASCII set (chars above
127) that for years could be counted on as standard. Alas, Windows came
along and all that went away (along with trying to make computers work
for non-westerners). For basic ASCII codes see
http://www.lookuptables.com/  of no real use for this discussion, but an
interesting look back.

John Warner


> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu 
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Reynen
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 6:09 PM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Re: Charset (sort-of OFF_TOPIC for js)
> 
> 
> 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