On 23-Apr-07, at 10:52 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote: > Le 23 avr. 07 à 18:43 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: > >> No, legacy encodings were defined all over the world. Unicode was >> defined by an international consortium. > > Thank you. > I wonder, then, why those encodings also include the ASCII part. > Should not the ASCII be an independent encoding?
The 8th bit started being used and that meant that ACSII (the first 7 bit portion) was the same but everything that had the 8th bit set was a new twist on ASCII making a new encoding. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
