>> appropriate set. The range can be 0 through 255 for SBCS characters
>> and -32768 through 65535 for DBCS characters.
>
>  Does that mean it skips some characters?

I was using this stuff a year ago to be able to produce properly encoded 
files for Google Maps. Worked for me, so case closed.

I did not try and so I don't know for sure. I would guess negative numbers 
map to 32767+. Maybe this is an error in Microsoft's documentation. It 
seemed strange to me, too, but I did not use negative numbers, so why 
bother?

MS is somewhat notorious for misleading and faulty docs. I remember somebody 
saying that the docs for MS WinWord were less a manual but more a work of 
fiction. ;-)

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