Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > I don't mind being corrected if I make a genuine mistake, in fact I > appreciate correction. But being corrected for something I already > acknowledged? That's just arguing for the sake of arguing. > [...] >> ASCII derivatives are in wide use in the Americas and Antarctica as >> well. They have been spotted in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and >> Africa. You shouldn't be surprized if you run into them in Asia, either. > > Of course. > > But they're not *all encodings*, and while they're important, there > are plenty of non-ASCII encodings and encodings which violate the "one > byte equals one character" invariant followed by ASCII and > extended-ASCII encodings.
They are all ASCII derivatives. Those that aren't don't exist. The vast majority of code pages in current use are supersets of ASCII <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page#Relationship_to_ASCII> Just like a byte is always 8 bits wide, and C's integers are all two's-complement. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
