Re: Wondrously-expanded quotes

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:56:44 +0100, Philip Newton
<philip.newton@...> wrote:

> It's upward-compatible as regards the characters it can encode, but not
> as regards the byte representation. In that regard, utf-8 is
> upward-compatible with ASCII, and hence with half of Latin-1, but not
> with all of it, since the upper half of Latin-1 can be represented by
> one byte in Latin-1 but requires two bytes in utf-8, though the "code
> point" encoded in this manner is the same.

Thank you for the refresher!

One correspondent gently complains about odd 194 or 226 decimal (he says
"a with hat") characters at the ends of my lines when I send using utf-8
encoding. I've gone back to '8859-15 as a default.

Regards,

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