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Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk

From	"R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk
Date	2019-11-23 09:19 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Mayayana,

>  I'm using the Windows terms, which are not always
> the same as what other people use.

That (different names for the same encoding) might well be part of my 
problem ...

I ofcourse know ASCII, and later on ANSI.

> Unicode - 2-byte characters as used in Windows,

Which I remember as "Wide character" (as the name used in the conversion 
function).

> which may not be the same as all unicode 16 and

Did I already mention I'm hazy with those names ?  Whell, stuff like that 
(two-byte unicode != unicode 16) certainly does that to me. :-)

> It gets confusing because "multi-byte" sounds like
> unicode but instead refers to ANSI encoding which
> *could* use multiple bytes.
> (You probably know that, too, but I'm not sure how
> many others do.)

Yep, I do know.  And for some reason I got the idea that UTF-8 was referring 
to that encoding scheme.   I normally refer to it as "multi byte" (again, 
from the conversion function).

Than again, I seem to vaguely remember that UTF-16 (two bytes per character) 
could do the same "multi byte" encoding ...

> and if they used UTF-8 it would potentially change
> the number of characters when rendered as ANSI

Yep.  Which I would/do not find strange in any way.   The same happens with 
C strings, in which you have to escape certain characters (gave me quite a 
puzzle the first time I encountered it). :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-20 12:54 +0100
  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-20 08:39 -0500
  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 00:00 +0700
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 12:50 -0500
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 20:39 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 15:04 -0500
        Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 21:46 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 16:31 -0500
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 09:23 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 09:14 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:58 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:13 +0700
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:47 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 10:10 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 18:37 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 18:40 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 09:19 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-23 10:09 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 17:36 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:10 +0700

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