On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:42:29 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> Cc: vellum <vellum@...68...>, inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Unicode and ANSI mode questions
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:36:07 -0700, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
vellum wrote:
bulia wrote>
What is "ANSI value"? Same as ASCII? If so then ASCII is a subset of Unicode, you can use the Unicode mode as in the above.
Yes, ANSI is a subset of Unicode.
ANSI is not a subset of anything.
I fucking hate acronyms, bad, bad, bad. They cause all kinds of problems. As far as I remember ANSI is the American National Standards Institute. (A quick google confirms it). I am pretty sure it was explained at the very start of Kernigan and Ritchies ANSI C book (because I have read the beginning a few times but not actually read the book).
ASCII is the American Standard for Code Information Interchange (I looked it up, I left out the 'for', so that should be "American Standard Code for Information Interchange")
Actually, it's not.
ASCII is a subset of Unicode, but ANSI is a term that Microsoft "borrowed".
ASCII is a subset of Unicode, or more accurately Unicode was designed as a backwards compatible superset of ASCII. (I've read the FAQ on Unicode several times but I never seem to remember most of it.)
They adopted a scheme that never made it out of proposal for their character-set codepages. In general, it's 8-bit or multi-byte character
the code pages are a nasty attempt to hack multi character support on to ASCII and shouldn't be touched with a bargepole unless you have an extremely good reason to do so. Unicode is the way to go.
My advice on all this mess: stick to Unicode and forget about anything else :)
Definately.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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