From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: realloc causing fault Date: 13 Dec 2000 19:28:27 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <918ikr$ne4$1@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <000501c05f64$6852d080$3e14883e AT gtdf> <918i11$tho$1 AT newsg4 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Trace: nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 976735707 24004 137.226.32.75 (13 Dec 2000 19:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Dec 2000 19:28:27 GMT Originator: broeker@ To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Greg Holdridge 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. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.