Re: Bad Character
Re: Bad Character
- Subject: Re: Bad Character
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:55:34 -0400
On 9/28/07, KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden> wrote:
> "The ellipsis does not exist in ASCII or Latin-1 - but it does exist in
> Windows-1252"
Yup, that's what i said, and it's true.
> The ellipsis is the char given in AppleScript by ASCII character
> (201) and I was said here some months ago that the AppleScript's set
> is MacRoman.
Also true, and completely irrelevant here; I didn't say anything about
MacRoman. Don't let the fact that you use the keyword "ASCII" in
Applescript fool you into thinking that any character you get out of
AS is ASCII. :)
You typed your mail in MacRoman. But your mailer (Apple Mail,
apparently?), realizing that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily
use or know from MacRoman, translates it into something else for
purposes of transmission. More specifically, I infer that it uses the
first one of ASCII, Latin-1, Windows-1252, or Unicode that has all the
characters needed.
It is perhaps odd that Windows-1252 is in there, but simply because of
Windows' market dominance software packages have been forced to deal
with that character set. And since it is a slight superset of
Latin-1, it's convenient and more concise for those situations where
the only characters you need to represent that aren't in Latin-1 are
among the 32 non-Latin-1 characters that are in Windows-1252.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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