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Re: ascii char 26

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:33:05 -0700 (PDT), bob <bob@coolgroups.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>Anyone know why ASCII char 26 is used in place of a hyphen in UTF-8?
>html = html.replaceAll("\u201C", "\"");

\u0026 is replaced by an ampersand at compile time, as if you had
typed one into the source code.

I presume you are talking about

26 0x1a	 ^Z SUB, substitute

\u001a is not useful.  It gets replaced by a ^z character, as if you
had typed it into the source text, possibly creating a syntax error.
If you want this char you probably want (char)0x001a 

This is true for ascii, UTF and UTF-8. If you see a -, it might just
be some font's attempt to render a SUB char.

You can use &#x241a; in HTML or \u241a in Java to render a tiny SUB
glyph to represent the char.

see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ascii.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unicode.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/utf.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/literal.html
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, 
the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97) 

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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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