OpenEuphoria

Re: code pages I think

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 19, 2001
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Ok.....

If i understand right, Igor and Geraldo are saying this: If i recieve something 
in a cyrilic font, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, or whatever,, as long as i know 
that a byte of (for invented instance) 203 = a certain character in the sender's
language, then as long as i keep that byte associated with that knowledge, 
even if i do not have that codepage, i can use that information to know what 
that letter, and word, and paragraph, mean, despite what they display as. As 
a second for instance, more real than the first, the Russian text i 
copy/pasted to Igor came from IE5 where it looked cyrilic, and i pasted it to 
Pegasus, which gives me apparently zero control of the font language 
families, and in Pegasus it was that collection of lantinik vowels with 
superscripts. Igor, i hope, read it as "thanks" in his native language's  
codepage. Now, if i knew the capital 'A' with a certain superscript was the 
same as the (for instance) 4th character of the Russian alphabet, then it 
would be possible for me, or a program, to read the Russian that's displayed 
with the wrong code,, because to the program, it's just a byte, an index into 
the font table. The display is to present a standard visual interface to 
humans,, and could just as likely be read properly with totally random chars, 
as long as *i* knew how the characters represented the Russian characters. 
The same byte, associated with another code page, would be interpreted as 
some other character, but be displayed the same in the same wrong 
codepage. Like how 39d = 27h = 47o = 100111b.

Is this correct?

Kat