Windows-1252 has been discussed on the ietf-charsets@iana.org list and been
submitted to IANA, last on January 23rd this year. I received confirmation
that the registration was received by IANA and is supposed to go to the
charset reviewer now.
The requested charset name is "Windows-1252", following the same pattern as
the other Windows-12nn registrations.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Wendt" <christw@microsoft.com>
To: <iana@iana.org>
Cc: <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Registration of new charset: Windows-1252
> To: IANA charset reviewer
>
> The registration of the charset "Windows-1252" has been discussed on the
> ietf-charsets@iana.org mailing list and no serious objection has been
> raised.
>
> I would appreciate if you can proceed with the registration as outlined in
> RFC 2278 or let me know if further details are required.
>
> Chris Wendt,
> Program Manager,
> Microsoft Corp.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Wendt" <christw@microsoft.com>
> To: <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
> Cc: "K.D. Chang (Exchange)" <KCHANG@exchange.microsoft.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:11 AM
> Subject: Registration of new charset: Windows-1252
>
>
> > Charset name: windows-1252
> >
> > The name is suitable for use as the value of a MIME content-type
> parameter.
> >
> > Published specification(s):
> > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.htm
> >
> >
> > Person & email address to contact for further information:
> >
> > Chris Wendt
> > Microsoft Corp.
> > One Microsoft Way
> > Redmond, WA 98052-6399
> > christw@microsoft.com
> >
> > K.D. Chang
> > Microsoft Corp.
> > One Microsoft Way
> > Redmond, WA 98052-6399
> > kchang@microsoft.com
> >
> >
> > Motivation:
> > This charset name is in use and completes the list of windows-125x
charset
> > registrations already registered by IANA.
> > Registration according to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2278.txt
> >
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Kuhn" <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: MIME charset windows-1252
> Erik van der Poel wrote on 2000-02-28 22:17 UTC:
> > Anyway, the Unix versions of Netscape 4.X do not support "smart quotes"
> > and other characters from the 0x80-0x9F range of windows-1252 very well,
> > so it would indeed be a good idea to turn off "smart quotes" in Word (if
> > you are interested in reaching UnixNav4 users).
>
> Those who want to test their browsers can have a look at
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/CP1252.html
>
> Since you mention "windows-1252", I wonder, why there has no MIME
> identifier for the Microsoft Windows Code Page CP1252 been registered in
>
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
>
> CP1252 is documented on
>
> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
> http://www.microsoft.com/GLOBALDEV/Reference/sbcs/1252.htm
>
> and is extremely widely used.
>
> Microsoft have registered "windows-1251", "windows-1253", etc. but not
> "windows-1252". There also is no other charset in the registry that
> looks equivalent ("ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1" seems to be a
> specific old version without the euro sign and quotes a PCL5 manual as
> the official reference).
>
> Very strange. could someone from Microsoft and IANA please look into
> this?
>
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
>
>
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