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From: analizer1 on 30 Jan 2010 15:34
thank you very much peter for your help
that puts me in the Right Direction...
my particular application is a Serial Terminal Window
so i need to decode oem character set for use with reading inbound serial
data

Again i appricate all your help thanks again

"Peter Duniho" <no.peted.spam(a)no.nwlink.spam.com> wrote in message
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> Peter Duniho wrote:
>> [...]
>> The character found at the value 216 in extended ASCII character
>> encodings is actually Unicode 0x2588. The other characters are in that
>> general range as well (you can use the Character Map program in Windows,
>> or similar references, to find exact Unicode values for specific
>> characters).
>
> I should be more clear about the above:
>
> The mapping from character 216 to Unicode character 0x2588 is _only_ valid
> for specific extended ASCII character encodings. Only if you know the
> specific encoding is it possible to say for sure what the equivalent
> Unicode character is, and there are non-Unicode encodings out there for
> which 216 is either not even a valid character, or for which 216 maps to a
> different Unicode character than 0x2588.
>
> Pete


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