On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:17:01PM +0100, Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that UTF-8 is almost identical
> to ISO-8859-1 in binary form to ISO-8859-1.  I mean, UTF-8 is
> ISO-8859-1 plus multibyte characters from other charsets.

No, UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are different from characters 128 and up.  Even
though code point 160 represents "non breaking space" in both, they are
represented differently in terms of bytes.  One is 0xA0 and the other is
0xC2 0xA0.

-Dom

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