[Scilab-users] {EXT} Handling of special characters like °

[Lamy Alain]

Hi, 

I stumbled upon the same oddity recently. 
I also think that some improvement is necessary.


Suggestions (for discussion): 

ascii(string) => array of size 1xN (N = length(string)), or "ERROR" if the string contains extended characters. 
 
ascii(string, option="ext") => array of size pxN, with p = 3 or whatever value is needed. 
	
(or it could be the opposite convention : returned size = p x N by default ...) 

Alain