On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:38:19AM +0200, Juerd Waalboer <juerd@convolution.nl> wrote: > > codepoints map to the same byte values. Except it are different byte > > values :) > > I said "unicode encoding", but should have said "unicode codepoints". > > Codepoints 0..256 in latin1 map to byte values 0..256. That makes it > special. Yes, and the exact same is true for unicode (both have a 1-1 mapping between 0..255 and octets), trivially, of course, as unicode explicitly is a superset of latin1. -- The choice of a -----==- _GNU_ ----==-- _ generation Marc Lehmann ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ pcg@goof.com --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / http://schmorp.de/ -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPEThread Previous | Thread Next