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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:34:49 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> Previously I was trying to work what sets contained 437 or 850
> characters ;-)
Greg,
A 'character' i.e. one byte, has only 256 possible values, therefore
any character set can have no more that 256 possible members. To get more,
you have to use a more exotic method, where more than one byte is used
to represent a character, eg. UTF.
Regards,
Ray Andrews
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