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Messenger Plus! gives you the option of saving your Chats in either ANSI/MBCS character set or Unicode. They suggest that you use Unicode only if you are utilizing complex languages (i.e. Chinese or Japanese characters)
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I assume you know why Ray or someone does?
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PhaseDMA wrote:I assume you know why Ray or someone does?
You assume I know why, what? Why they suggest you use Unicode for complex language? If that is why you are asking, I believe it's because Asian characters are 2-bit characters and unicode supports that. But, I'm not really sure. I was just posting what was listed in the Messenger Plus! options screen.
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Oh well. I just thought you would know. I am sure someone here knows for sure :-?.
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harra wrote:
PhaseDMA wrote:I assume you know why Ray or someone does?
You assume I know why, what? Why they suggest you use Unicode for complex language? If that is why you are asking, I believe it's because Asian characters are 2-bit characters and unicode supports that. But, I'm not really sure. I was just posting what was listed in the Messenger Plus! options screen.
Unicode is base 65536, while ASCII is base 256. That means any character outside the normal 256 present in ASCII are represented by 2 bytes. This character set extends far beyond asian characters into cyrillic, arabic, middle- and old-english characters, mathematical symbols, and more. In general, it doesn't really make a difference whether you use ASCII or Unicode. But if you're sending characters from outside the ASCII set in messages, they'll appear in the log as the 2 characters represented by:
1. the integer part when dividing the character code by 256
2. the remainder when dividing the code by 256.

I would suggest leaving it in Unicode unless you specifically don't want Unicode characters to appear correctly or you have severely limited hard disk space.
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Hmmm. You learn something new everyday. I guess I will be switching.
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PhaseDMA wrote:Hmmm. You learn something new everyday. I guess I will be switching.
I don't learn something new every day. I already know it all. :lol:
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Hiya know-it-all!

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