Re: 8859-1, 8859-15, 1252 and Euro

From: Alain LaBonté  (alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 12:03:32 EST

À 08:09 2000-02-10 -0800, Erik van der Poel a écrit:
>There is a boundary between mainframes and the Internet. There is a
>gateway at that boundary. The gateway should take care of the octets in
>the C1 range, so that the big mainframe doesn't choke on the data
>produced by the little PC. The gateway will need to do this for UTF-8
>*anyway*, so it might as well do it for windows-1252 too.

Yes, like get rid of some French and Finnish characters.

Alain

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