Re: cp1252 sanity check

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Fri Sep 04 1998 - 03:28:36 EDT


Murray,
Immense thanks for the quick reply.
tex

On Sep 3, 5:45pm, Murray Sargent wrote:
> Subject: RE: cp1252 sanity check
> In agreement with the Unicode ftp stie, Microsoft internal 1252 tables
have
> (added in June, 1997)
>
> 0x80 Euro
> 0x8E Latin Capital Letter Z with Caron
> 0x9E Latin Small Letter Z with Caron
>
> No character currently occupies 0x8F (or several others in the 0x80 -
0x9F
> range). Win98 is up-to-date with these tables. Recent service packs
update
> NT 4.0 and Win95.
>
> Murray
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: texin@progress.com [SMTP:texin@progress.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 1998 2:52 PM
> > To: Unicode List
> > Subject: cp1252 sanity check
> >
> >
> > A while back there were some emails that noted that Microsoft's code
page
> > 1252 had Capital Letter Z with Caron added at location 0x8E and the
Small
> > letter at 0x8F.
> >
> > However, if I look at the the unicode conversion table cp1252.txt
> > in the Unicode ftp site public/mappings/vendors/microsoft/windows,
the
> > characters are mapped to 0x8e and 0x9e. This actually makes a little
more
> > sense as the upper and lower cases of other characters have the same
> > separation, but contradicts the mail messages here.
> >
> > Can anyone confidently answer which location is correct for the small
Z
> > with caron?
> >
> > Which products have this updated 1252? Do I need a service pack or
win
> > 98, so I can confirm for myslef which is right?
> >
> > TIA
> > tex
> >
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>-- End of excerpt from Murray Sargent

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