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Re: ascii char 26

Date	2011-09-11 17:48 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: ascii char 26
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On 9/11/2011 5:33 PM, bob wrote:
> Anyone know why ASCII char 26 is used in place of a hyphen in UTF-8?
>
> I had to write this function to deal with this:
>
> 	public static String convertToAscii(String html) {
> 		html = html.replaceAll("\u2019", "'");
> 		html = html.replaceAll("\u201D", "\"");
> 		html = html.replaceAll("\u201C", "\"");
>
> 		byte[] b = null;
> 		try {
> 			b = html.getBytes("US-ASCII");
> 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
> 			e.printStackTrace();
> 		}
>
> 		// hyphen replace
> 		for (int ctr = 0; ctr<  b.length; ctr++)
> 			if (b[ctr] == 26)
> 				b[ctr] = 45;
>
> 		html = new String(b);
> 		return html;
> 	}

ASCII code 26 is not in general replaced with hyphen.

If you are asking why some code may do it, then in
some contexts (usually on Windows platform) ASCII code
26 indicates EOF.

Arne

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ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 14:33 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-11 17:48 -0400
  Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 16:52 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:28 -0400
    Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 19:12 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 21:25 -0500
        Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-12 01:30 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-11 15:25 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no> - 2011-09-11 23:18 +0000
    Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:37 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Retahiv Oopsiscame <roopsisc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 16:53 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 11:55 -0700

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