Le 23 avr. 07 à 21:34 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: > On Apr 23, 2007, at 19:26 UTC, Arnaud Nicolet wrote: > >> I remember there is an encoding named "ASCII". I'm curious to >> discover what is, in that encoding, the character numbered 128 > > There is none. ASCII values range only from 0 to 127. It is like > asking how many days are in the 13th month of the year. > >> (because I assume the ASCII encoding provided by RB has that extra >> 8th bit). > > There is no "ASCII encoding provided by RB"; there is only the ASCII > encoding, or various things that are not the ASCII encoding (but > may be > a superset of ASCII). The ASCII encoding defines values from 0 to > 127, > period, end of story. No other characters are defined. > > Now, in RB, if you ask for an invalid character -- e.g. > Encodings.ASCII.Chr(128) -- it'll probably give you something, but > exactly what it gives you is undefined. The result will almost > certainly vary from platform to platform, or depending on your system > settings, or on what version of RB you're using. It might even > generate an OutOfBoundsException (which would be a pretty sensible > thing for it to do). Garbage in, garbage out.
Thanks. I've got many questions, but I will try to not annoy (I think it may start if I ask too much). _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
