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Re: Check for *all* alphanumeric characters...

#8151
From: Torsten Welches
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:27
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Valentino,

<afaik> the codes are fixed and don't depend on the locale.
'&' will always be Unicode 0x26. </afaik>

Why do you think that would depend on the Locale? 

Torsten 

"Valentino Kyriakides" <vkyr@nospamlavielle.com> wrote:
>Torsten, is this character set dependend on the used locale?
>
>I mean, if I need now only specific ranges from such an sort of extended
>ASCII character set, so that I allow only specific characters ranges from
>the whole [0,256], can I be shure that 0x26 till 0x2F always really include
>the charcters "& � ( ) * + , - . /"?
>
>We use the DE local and now we have for some sort of server side input
>validition (shop input fields) to allow only certain alphanumeric chars, as:
>
> Numeric:  [0x30, 0x39]
> Range1:   [0x26, 0x2F]
> Range2:   [0x41, 0x5A]  (A-Z)
> Range3:   [0x61, 0x7A]  (a-z)
> ...
> ...
>
>Would these always be unique independently of the the local, I don't think
>so?  And what's if the local doesn't change and is always unique?
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