Re: ISO 8859_2 and Windows 1250

From: Radovan Garabik (garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 02:03:11 EST

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    On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:41:24AM +0530, SRIDHARAN Aravind wrote:
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    > Hi,
    > What is the basic difference between ISO 8859_2 and Windows 1250?

    http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?cp=8859-2&cp1=CP1250+%28CE%29

    > Also what is the basic difference between Cp1250 and Cp1252.

    http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?cp=CP1252+%28Western%29&cp1=CP1250+%28CE%29

    basically, those are three different 8 bit codepages and you have to
    treat them separately.

    >
    > I am handling two central european languages (polish and czech)
    >
    > What should I do for proper display of data in browser for both languages?
    >

    since you are posting to unicode mailing list, my advice is to
    use UTF-8 encoding which covers nicely both Czech and Polish.
    UTF-8 in browsers is widely supported nowadays, so you probably needn't
    take any additional steps. 

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