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Re: [h-e-w] Displaying Latin characters


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Displaying Latin characters
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:23:06 +0800
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John J. Xenakis wrote:
The above is typical news story text, containing several 8-bit ascii

8 bit ASCII is an oxymoron. ASCII is 7 bit by definition. Beyond that, you need to know what encoding was used originally to interpret the bytes correctly as characters.





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