[arachne] Re: code page

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>> A 'character' i.e. one byte, has only 256 possible values, therefore

> A 'character' may be encoded in many ways, using any number of bytes.

>> any character set can have no more that 256 possible members.

> ...if the character set is limited to one byte per character.

That's absolutely correct. For example, DR-DOS supports double byte
character sets, so it is not limited to 256 characters per code page.

Regards,

Udo

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