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

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 11:47:23 EDT


At 11:52 01/07/10 +0100, Stephen Cowe - Sun Scotland wrote:
>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,

Yes.

>and
>if so, are the values the same.

No.

Regards, Martin.

>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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