Re^2: Perl Modules for handling Non English text

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Standard ASCII handles characters in the western alphabet including umlaut characters (like in German). But there are only 256 possibilities in 8 bits!

ASCII is only 7 bits and does not include any accented characters at all. You are, perhaps, confusing it with ISO-8859-n.

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Re^3: Perl Modules for handling Non English text by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 31, 2009 at 13:09 UTC
I think he's referring the "A" Windows system calls, where the "A" stands for ANSI (not ASCII) despite having very little to do with the ANSI character encodings (or the ASCII character encoding).	[reply]

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