Subject: Re: substring() From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:28:46 -0400 |
At 10:12 AM 6/4/1999 -0700, Chuck White wrote: >A stupid question, perhaps, but what's a diactrical? I looked it up in a >couple of online computer-term dictionaries, but couldn't find it. Thanks It's "diacritical" -- typo on Mike K's part. A diacritical is a non-US ASCII character like "É". In the context of Mike's explanation, I think the problem is that some [many?] such characters are represented with more than one byte, so the notion of plucking "a character" out of a string that may contain mixed character sets becomes a dicey proposition. ============================================================= John E. Simpson | It's no disgrace t'be poor, simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx | but it might as well be. | -- "Kin" Hubbard XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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