From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2007 - 17:59:20 CDT
Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr>
>> This is explicitly specified in the "best fit" mappings on the
>> Unicode site, which are based on .NET behavior, as Peter knows:
>>
>> CPINFO 1 0x3f 0x003f ;Single Byte CP, Default Char = Question Mark
>
> Note however that the codepage conversion API (in the Windows SDK)
> allows an application to specify the behaviour for unmapped
> characters. Only the default value of this API is using a mapping to a
> question mark, but other behaviour is possible: returning en error or
> exception, using another default mapping (for example a SUB control).
All right, then:
This is explicitly specified in the "best fit" mappings on the Unicode
site, which are based on **DEFAULT** .NET behavior.
Which I'm sure is what is being used in the Windows apps where John
Hudson noticed the question marks.
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