[arachne] Re: code page (was Re: Ray's distro)

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On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:23:47 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

> 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.

> To get more,
> you have to use a more exotic method, where more than one byte is used
> to represent a character, eg. UTF.

Exactly!

You will doubtless recall the discussion earlier this year in this or
another Arachne list about character sets containing several thousands
of characters.

So messages that seemed to suggest sets with 437 or 850 characters did
not seem to be illogical to me.

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