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Re: ascii char 26

From	Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: ascii char 26
Date	2011-09-11 18:28 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<j4jcmd$p16$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 9/11/2011 5:52 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> On 9/11/2011 4:33 PM, bob wrote:
>> Anyone know why ASCII char 26 is used in place of a hyphen in UTF-8?
>
> The US-ASCII encoder only properly encodes characters in the range of
> 0-127, i.e., the characters that are present in ASCII. Any other
> character is replaced with some sort of substitution character; in this
> case, it looks like the charset has chosen to use ^Z as the "I don't
> know what this character is" character (I would have guessed '?'
> instead, but I suppose they decided to go with the less-commonly used
> variant).

     It makes more sense when you think of 26 not as ^Z, but as SUB.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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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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