extended characters

[Bruce Easton]

I recently imported a file (via readline command in clerk)
from an XML file that states at the end of the top line:
"encoding="UTF-8".  I then write out the line as-is to 
a record.

In filePro (SCO 5.14), the line is stored with the funny 
characters here and there.  (The data has names in several
different languages including eastern & western european 
and middle eastern as well.)

I coded an errorbox to come up on @key that will scan 
each line character by character so that I can see the 
decimal values of each character that is above 127.

When I am on, for instance, the third character in the 
expression "President du commandement" which I'm thinking 
must be French, and therefore an e with an accute accent 
(avec accent aigu), my errorbox is telling me [via my 
code:  asc(mid(xx,currpos,"1"))] for two characters in 
a row that filePro is storing this as decimal 195 followed 
by decimal 169.

I don't see how these decimal numbers correlate to any 
common character set.  Am I missing something obvious?

(The only funny part of this was was that when I'd scroll 
down thru the data, it would hit some combination of 
the extended chars and send a print job to the system 
printer.  Who knows what else it did on the system.)

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.