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Question about handles -

01-08-2009, 06:57 AM#1
Blackroot
Bleh, I thought I knew them but I was oh so WRONG >.<. I always thought that handles were:

from 0
1-9
A-Z
a-z

Which would be 1+9+26+26 = 62. However, I was in fact wrong:
BJDebugMsg(I2S('A010' - 'A000'))

Displays 256! So apparantly handles use every available non-unicode character. However, in spells I have never seen the use of most of these characters. Could someone enlighten me as to how this system is actually working? (Google failed me ;()

Thanks!
01-08-2009, 07:00 AM#2
Pyrogasm
Handles? You mean ability/unit codes?

They use ASCII, as far as I know, which consists of 256 characters.
http://www.codetoad.com/html/text/ascii_characters.asp