On Wednesday, April 04, 2018 02:10:16 PM Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > rhkramer: > > The reason I wanted such a byte was to use it as a record separator in > > a set of text files (that I use as an askSam "workalike" (or > > "worksimilar") so that I could use msort (which depends on a 1 byte > > record separator to --separate the records ;-) while sorting. Some of > > the files already include UTF-8, and, in the future, I anticpate all > > will be in UTFF-8. > > Note that ISO 646, hence ISO 8859, hence ISO 10646, has had a > single-byte Record Separator character since the 1960s. (-:
Ok, thanks, I see that is Dec 30, Hex 1e. A quick look at the UTF-8 table in the Wikipedia article on UTF-8 seems to indicate that byte is a valid UTF-9 byte, which makes it unsuitabe for my use.
