Re: How to represent the letter phi

"Winbug" <Roger.Valand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I guess I have to go unicode then wich makes it a bit more complicated
since I have to go unicode all the way.

No you don't. UTF-8 was specifically engineered to map to the same
code points as ASCII for values from 0 to 159, and to be able to
reach code points up to U+FFFF (at least, may also be the full 32-bit
range) with its use of the values from 160 to 255.

So for valid 7-bit ASCII codes, the UTF-8 encoding is identical,
and the full Unicode range is still within reach.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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