
What the UTF? ASCII Here. Part III
If you’ve haven’t read my last two columns (part I and part II) on UTF encodings, I’ll summarize them here in one sentence:
THERE AIN’T NO SUCH THING AS ASCII!
That’s right, there is no such thing as an ASCII string unless you understand the encoding that it uses. And there are a lot of encodings. We all know a significant segment of the world’s population speaks, reads and writes something other than English. For your ASCII strings to be understood by people speaking languages other than English, you really need to understand ASCII encodings. It’s time to ante up.