Re: conversion of ascii to utf-8

From: Michael (michka) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 02:23:06 EST


Do you have a specific platform upon which you are working?

In truth, ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, and no conversion is needed to move
from ASCII. Since ASCII cannot support other languages, you cannot convert
the other way if you have any languages above those seven bits.

michka

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----- Original Message -----
From: "sreekant" <sreekant@netesolutions.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:17 PM
Subject: conversion of ascii to utf-8

> hi,
> The 7-bit ASCII text on the web is the only common format
> that is truly supported in all countries.
> For unicode compatibility the utf-8 format is normally preferred. What
> approach is
> to be followed to convert the ascii representation of characters into
> the utf-8 format to enable the unicode compatibility?
> bye,
> Sreekanth Devarakonda
> http://www.netesolutions.com
>
>
>



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