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<div class="callout note">The Unicode / ASCII translation is performed by the supplied macros '''unic-asc.vdm''' and '''asc-unic.vdm'''.</div> | <div class="callout note">The Unicode / ASCII translation is performed by the supplied macros '''unic-asc.vdm''' and '''asc-unic.vdm'''.</div> | ||
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*[[Translate_EBCDIC_ASCII|Translate between EBCDIC and ASCII]] | *[[Translate_EBCDIC_ASCII|Translate between EBCDIC and ASCII]] | ||
*[[Translate_ANSI_OEM-PC|Translate between ANSI and OEM-PC]] | *[[Translate_ANSI_OEM-PC|Translate between ANSI and OEM-PC]] | ||
*[[Create_Custom_Translation_Tables|Create Custom Translation Tables]] | *[[Create_Custom_Translation_Tables|Create Custom Translation Tables]] | ||
*[[Loading_Translate_Tables|Loading other Translate Tables]] | *[[Loading_Translate_Tables|Loading other Translate Tables]] | ||
With vEdit you can translate some Unicode files (e.g., for English, French, German, Italian, etc.) into ASCII, or from ASCII into Unicode.
In all variations of ASCII, each character is represented by one byte, which allows up to 256 different characters.
In “Unicode”, each character is represented by two bytes, which allows up to 65,536 different characters, which is enough to represent characters in Chinese and Japanese.
Unicode has been used for some English, French, German, Italian, etc. text files which really only need 256 different characters. In this case the upper byte of each Unicode character is zero (00 hex).