[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:16:26 -0500
My mistake. I meant to say 0 to 255.
John
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:10:03PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Mon 02/07/12,09:52, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > UTF-8 in the opcode arguments would be a bad idea. Since the beginning,
> > the character argument has accepted characters from 0 to 127 as valid.
> > UTF-8 conflicts with this.
>
> According to the standard 0 to 127 is exactly the same for ascii and for
> utf-8, so this is not a conflict.
>
> Wikipedia reitterates this:
>
> "The first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one with ASCII,
> are encoded using a single octet with the
> same binary value as ASCII, making valid ASCII text valid UTF-8-encoded
> Unicode as well."
>
> from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
>
> I could dig up a more reputable source if its required.
>
> Thanks,
> Mesar
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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