Brightscript Unicode support
Hi, I came across this reply below in the forum. "RokuKevin" wrote: We have not added unicode (utf-8 or utf-16) support to BrightScript yet... There may be a few places where BrightScript ass...
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"RokuMarkn" wrote:
ASCII is by definition a 7-bit character set. There's no such thing as "8 bit ASCII" to the best of my knowledge.
Technically true, but the term "8-bit ASCII" is in common usage. Google "8-bit ASCII" and you'll see what I mean.
"RokuMarkn" wrote:
ISO-8859 is a separate character set and is not ASCII.
Also technically true, but the underlying point is that ISO-8859-1 and other similar 8-bit "ascii-like" character sets are in common use as the default character set on other languages/platforms. I don't know of many languages/platforms in current use that don't support an 8-bit "extended ASCII" (also a commonly used term) charset by default.
"RokuMarkn" wrote:
Can you provide an example of code that hangs or crashes the box when you pass a non-ASCII value to chr()?
Will do. I'll send you a PM with the code when I get chance to recreate it (it's been a while since I even tried something over 127 when using chr() - I learned the lesson immediately 🙂 ).
