Hi,
My assignment states that all text values only contain 8 bits characters. The encoding of these characters is US ASCII.
By reading this I remembered a quote in the �Complete Java 2 Certification, Fifth Edition� book. The quote was this:
�The strings that denote encoding names are determined by standards committees, so they are not especially obvious of informative. For example, the U.S. ASCII encoding name is not USASCII as you might expect, but rather ISO8859-1.�
I looked in the posts on this forum, but I can�t find a clear answer.
What I red was that U.S. ASCII was originally 7 bits, and didn�t contain European characters. So the US ASCII standard was extended to 8 bits and with support for European characters. This new version was named ISO8859-1.
But when I red the posts, people said that they are using the USASCII anyway. While to me it seems that ISO8859-1 is the way to go.
So can someone give my a clear answer which to use?
Kind regards,
Marinus
My assignment states that all text values only contain 8 bits characters. The encoding of these characters is US ASCII.
By reading this I remembered a quote in the �Complete Java 2 Certification, Fifth Edition� book. The quote was this:
�The strings that denote encoding names are determined by standards committees, so they are not especially obvious of informative. For example, the U.S. ASCII encoding name is not USASCII as you might expect, but rather ISO8859-1.�
I looked in the posts on this forum, but I can�t find a clear answer.
What I red was that U.S. ASCII was originally 7 bits, and didn�t contain European characters. So the US ASCII standard was extended to 8 bits and with support for European characters. This new version was named ISO8859-1.
But when I red the posts, people said that they are using the USASCII anyway. While to me it seems that ISO8859-1 is the way to go.
So can someone give my a clear answer which to use?
Kind regards,
Marinus