Subj : Re: Character codes
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Tue Mar 05 2019 09:00:00

In a message on 03-03-19 Maurice Kinal said to Holger Granholm:

God afton Maurice,

 HG> I was looking for the hyphen and citation characters and the
 HG> euro sign.

MK> The unicode for it is "U+20AC" which is a 24 bit character and thus
MK> will show up as three hex characters in a hex editor; e2 82 ac

OK, the code 218 128 162 that i interpreted as hyphen actually is the
longer 'dash'.

Thanks for the correction.

MK> Does that help?  I am not sure which 8 bit encoding has the euro
MK> sign other than latin9 and there it is a4 which is dec 164.

Yep it did, thanks. The IBM kbd and CP book of 1996 doesn't help but in
the OS/2 FP15 the euro symbol is included as kbd 'right Alt and 5'.

MK> It doesn't exist in either cp437 or cp850.  Both the MS encodings
MK> cp1250 and cp1252 show it as dec 128.

Simple, the Euro didn't exist then and dec 128 is a close interpretation

 HG> With decimal interpretation I get the citation mark as 218 128
 HG> 157.

Yes, I did have that correct.

MK> Converting e2 82 ac to decimal gives me 226 130 172.

Yep that's the normal hyphen.


God natt min v„n,

Holger


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