Subject: Re: What are codepages?
From: Paul Sander (paul@wakawaka.com)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 01:27:15 EDT
Code pages map the way a character is represented by the software to the
way it is presented to the user. In other words, they're look-up tables:
Given a byte-code and a locale, it presents the visual image of the
character.
--- Forwarded mail from peterg@powervue.com
I'll risk betraying my Macintosh roots, but would somebody please explain =
what 'codepages' are, and what they're used for. I've always got the sense =
that it had something to do with character encoding, but have no idea how =
to appreciate and evaluate what a sun wrote last month...
--- End of forwarded message from peterg@powervue.com
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