Re: FW: Using Unicode Characters in ASCII Streams

From: Sampo Syreeni (decoy@iki.fi)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 15:15:12 EST

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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:

>Now here is my question: Is there a method to add any Unicode character
>to a 8-Bit ASCII stream?

$.02: The preferrable solution would likely be to go to UTF-8. If that is
not possible, the next best thing would probably be to use ISO 2022
escapes to switch temporarily to ISO 10646, and interpret that according
to Unicode guidelines.

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