@ASCII vs. @UNICODE

[Charles Dye]

What's the difference between %@ASCII[] and %@UNICODE[] ? Under what circumstances would these two functions return different values for the same input string?

 

[Steve Fabian]

I think Charles is right, @alias has been enhanced to be an alias for @unicode. When I used @ascii and @unicode to report the character entered as alt-200, the lower left corner of double lines ╚, both reported 9562. Other few values I tried likewise.

 

[Charles Dye]

I'm just curious.... Why do we have two functions to do the same thing? Were they different in the past?

 

[rconn]

They were different in the past, but their differences became irrelevant when 4NT / TCC became Unicode-only.

 

[Steve Fabian]

Code and operation OK. Might comment in HELP. But I hope you mean by "Unicode-only" that internally that's how TCC operates, but UnicodeOutput=No remains a viable directive.

 

[Charles Dye]

They were different in the past, but their differences became irrelevant when 4NT / TCC became Unicode-only.

Aha. Thanks.