The Old New Thing

What('s) a character!

January 5, 2007 Jan 5, 2007 01/5/07

Raymond Chen

Norman Diamond seems to have made a side career of harping on this topic on a fairly regular basis, although he never comes out and says that this is what he's complaining about. He just assumes everybody knows. (This usually leads to confusion, as you can see from the follow-ups.) Back in the ANSI days, terminology was simpler. Windows ...