Re: Character set cluelessness

From: Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 21:49:53 +0100

On 2 Oct 2012, at 21:40, Doug Ewell wrote:

> But referencing the 1993 version of ISO 10646-1, or claiming that MS-DOS code page 437 is "the standard United States character set" in 2012 and that it "conforms" to 8859-1 and 10646, helps nobody.

It's not that it helps nobody. It's just that it's WRONG.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Tue Oct 02 2012 - 15:51:05 CDT

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