Unicode, UTF-8 and Extended 8-Bit Ascii - Help Needed

From: Stephen Cowe - Sun Scotland (Stephen.Cowe@Sun.COM)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 06:52:50 EDT


Hi Unicoders,

I am new to the list and would be really grateful if you could help me out here.

I am trying to discover if the "extended latin" 8-bit ascii (decimal
values 128-255, Hex A0-FF), i.e. ISO-8859-1 are supported by UTF-8, and
if so, are the values the same.

The reason why I am asking this is because our EDIFACT EDI system
requires to send extended latin European characters (using the UNOC version 3
syntax identifier) and our global internal messaging system is being converted
to UTF-8.

I have had a good search of the Unicode web-site but do not seem to be able to
find the answer, yes or no, that I require.

I look forward to hearing from you, kind regards,

Stephen Cowe.

eCommerce Technologist
GSO IT EDI/EDE
+44 (0)1506 672541 (Tel)
+44 (0)1506 672893 (Fax)
stephen.cowe@sun.com



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