Since this thread has drifted seriously off-topic (probably no longer even appropriate for this forum!) I have responded to this message in a new thread.
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Kind Regards, John
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As long as you re-define "everywhere" as "everywhere using the same character encoding". If you've never experienced the "joy" of dealing with a load of hieroglyphics due to differences in character set then you've not lived
It's a LOT better these days now that character sets are more standardised, but some of us recall the days when you had to choose between being able to print '#' and being able to print '£' - it typically being decided by a switch that set which character a particular ASCII code would print.
Actually I meant in all applications on your computer.
I most certainly have experienced what you are talking about, quite possibly to a greater deal than you have. I worked for a long time on a product where the main message carrying product underneath handled translation between CCSIDs, if it was configured correctly.
That is easier said than done when the client is using one office as an IT hub for offices in multiple countries that used different CCSIDs and the messages (at least potentially) could go anywhere in the world.
Well "all application on your computer" is not too helpful when discussing internet forums - unless you can guarantee that somewhere along the line, either everyone uses the same code page, or "something" takes care of translation.
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@SimonH2,
I think that you are being overly pedantic here. This is a English language forum, the readers are almost certain to have their computers set to use an English code page (e.g. Latin-1), and so they will have few if any problems when posting on any other English language forum.
Latin-1 will enable people to write virtually every character in use in western Europe and the vast majority of those from the rest of Europe, apart from Greek, the Slav languages that use Cyrillic, and I think that is it.
I suspect that for most people the %age of cases that will fall outside that is extremely small indeed. So I think that 'all' is a reasonable approximation (abbreviation?) in a DIY forum (not in the computing section).
Are you trying to say that you have never used 'all' (or 'every' or something like that) when you mean 'essentially every case that you will come across unless someone is is doing things differently from the vast majority of people'?
I think that you are being overly pedantic here. This is a English language forum, the readers are almost certain to have their computers set to use an English code page (e.g. Latin-1), and so they will have few if any problems when posting on any other English language forum.
Latin-1 will enable people to write virtually every character in use in western Europe and the vast majority of those from the rest of Europe, apart from Greek, the Slav languages that use Cyrillic, and I think that is it.
I suspect that for most people the %age of cases that will fall outside that is extremely small indeed. So I think that 'all' is a reasonable approximation (abbreviation?) in a DIY forum (not in the computing section).
Are you trying to say that you have never used 'all' (or 'every' or something like that) when you mean 'essentially every case that you will come across unless someone is is doing things differently from the vast majority of people'?
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