[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Could anone explain this for me? Codepage issue

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> On Aug 8, 2018, at 9:41 AM, goo wrote: > > Are you saying that a longchar with codepage ISO8859 should be able to hold codepage UTF-8? You probably know this already, but: ISO 8859 is a single byte code page with 8-bit characters. there are several (minor) variants for different part of europe. details here: en.wikipedia.org/.../IEC_8859 with character maps. 8859-15 is frequently used in Windows systems and elsewhere. UTF-8 is a multi-byte code page with characters that are 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes long, depending on the character being represented. UTF-8 has my characters that cannot be converted to a single byte of ISO-8859. BTW: 7-bit ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8.=

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