RE: CP1252 under Unix

From: Robert Brady (robert@susu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 08:28:57 EST


On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:

> match MS's choice of mappings). For UNIX, just do this automatically even
> if the HTML says ISO-8859-1 since there should never be any control
> characters in that range and if the codepoints do occur then they are

That would be acceptance of standards subversion. And it doesn't work.
(Theres plenty of KOI8-R, ISO-8859-2, [insert other standard here]) tagged
as ISO-8859-1, at least on usenet.

-- 
Robert



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