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[rberta]

Say one had code that searched a file.  The search string was Chr(0)&Chr(68)&Chr(84) ....

Would that translate correctly as null&D&T (which is correct in the English world) in a country that uses double-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)? 

Comments

[quartzpoet]

I believe so, yes. The first 128 characters of ASCII are, so far as I know, not variable by region. Any character code above 127 is consiered to be "extended".

[quartzpoet]

Wouldn't an app decoding the string as Unicode identify that as "0x0044" (letter D rather than NUL+D) and then get confused by the 0x56 by itself?

-s