Re: 8-bit encodings and ASCII (was: Unicode conformant character encodings and us-ascii)

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 04:15:26 EDT

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jameskass at att dot net wrote:

> If somebody was converting a file from a DOS code page into Unicode,
> would it ever be appropriate to map 0x0D to U+266A [♪] ?

Nope. 0x0D is usually not displayed as ♪, only under some very special
conditions (e.g. when opening a text file in binary mode using MS-DOS
Editor).

Stefan

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