Do all the Unicode character set mappings cover control codes?
No, the control code mappings are often omitted from the tables on the Unicode site. For the ASCII family of character sets, these are usually one-to-one mappings from the Unicode set based on taking the lower 8 bits of the Unicode character. However, they may differ significantly for other sets, such as EBCDIC. The correct Unicode mappings for the special graphic characters (01-1F, 7F) of CP437 and other DOS-type code pages are available at ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/.
No, the control code mappings are often omitted from the tables on the Unicode site. For the ASCII family of character sets, these are usually one-to-one mappings from the Unicode set based on taking the lower 8 bits of the Unicode character. However, they may differ significantly for other sets, such as EBCDIC. The correct Unicode mappings for the special graphic characters (01-1F, 7F) of CP437 and other DOS-type code pages are available at ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ as well as http://www.unicode.
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