e.g. some IBM platforms use the EBCDIC standard instead of ASCII. The character ''0'' is represented by 240 in EBCDIC.

quote:Original post by KalvinB
What platforms wouldn''t the ASCII value be compatible with?

Ben

By it''s definition, ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange." It''s the standard code used for information interchange among data processing systems, data communications systems, and associated equipment in the United States. So say you made this great program that people in China or some other country (where that standard is Unicode or something different) want to port, well now they will be on a scavenger hunt for bugs.