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<pre wrap="">Ignoring that ANSI Characters > $7F are locale depending makes a program
work perfectly in a single country and mostly decently in many others.
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So it works in far east with its multi byte ansi encodings?
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These of course are not part of the "many others". (BTW handling
Russian with ANSI is not easy at all, we already have been there :) ).
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But those that do software for "far east" are not likely to ignore
multi-byte characters in utf8 coded strings (as the OP suggested). <br>
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-Michael<br>
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