Larry asks:

> Does anyone have a code translator from Unicode to ASCII to be used in an
>  automated conversion process?

For the lower-register ASCII codes (dec 0 to 127), ASCII and Unicode are
identical, with the exception that Unicode is a 16-bit representation and
ASCII is only 8 bits. To convert one to other, all you need to is strip off
or add eight zeroes to whichever code value you're starting with.

For the upper-register ASCII codes (dec 128 to 255), the same basic rules
apply with the caveat that Unicode uses the ISO Latin-1 symbol set, which is
the same that HTML uses. What that means is that it's not exactly equivalent
to the Windows extended Latin-1 code set. In ISO Latin-1, there are 32
"blank" entries that are unused in HTML/Unicode/ISO Latin-1 but which are
filled in in Windows.

The Windows characters appear elsewhere in the Unicode set, but they're not
where Bill put them. Most likely this won't be a problem, but that's the only
translation that's actually necessary. Everything else is just a byte
re-registration problem.

Wirt Atmar

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