From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: realloc causing fault
Date: 13 Dec 2000 19:28:27 GMT
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Greg Holdridge <greg AT holdridge7 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Don't worry, this is a purely academic exercise. And doesnt the extended
> ASCII table cover codes 0 through 0xff anyway?

No, it doesn't. ASCII is a 7bit code table. It doesn't say a bit about
codes between 0x80 and 0xff. Later on, this table was extended, giving
us all those PC/DOS codepages, the ISO-8859 8bit tables like the
well-known 'Latin-1' and 'Latin-2', and, even later, 16bit Unicode
that now covers even the Chinese family of scripts.



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