MC-Basic:TOASCII8$

Converts the UTF-8 coding format of the input string into the ASCII-8 coding format. Symbols located outside ASCII-8 range (Unicode value higher than 0xFF) are replaced by question marks.

Syntax

? TOASCII8$(<string>)

Availability

Since Version 4.5.18

Type

<string>: string

Range

<string>: string

Scope

Configuration, Task or Terminal

Examples

Common shared UTF8Str as string of UTF8

? TOASCII8$(UTF8Str)

See Also

• COMMON SHARED ... AS LONG or DOUBLE or STRING or STRING OF UTF8
• TOUTF8$