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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by m_eiman on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @04:50AM (#715955)
Actually it's UTF8(ASCII) == ASCII iff ASCII < 128, since the MSB signifies a multi-byte character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Hm, on second thought UTF8(ASCII) is -always- == ASCII, since ASCII is only defined for 0-127, unless you count the extended variants :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

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