in reply to Re^2: Perl Modules for handling Non English text
in thread Perl Modules for handling Non English text

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).
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