e 96 numeric values from 32 through 127. There
are major groups of character sets:</p>

<dl>
<dt><i>Windows Character Set (single-byte coding scheme)</i></dt>
<dd>The Windows character set is the most commonly used character set in Windows.
It is essentially equivalent to the ANSI character set. The Windows character set
uses 8 bits to represent each character; therefore, the maximum number of
characters that can be expressed using 8 bits is 256 (2^8).  This is usually
sufficient for Western languages, incl