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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:06:06 -0600
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Alex Strickland <sscc@mweb.co.za> wrote:
> I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection of
> latin1 as the 1 byte set. My impression was that if some set of characters
> was chosen that included all characters commonly used in French then all
> would be well with the world.
>
> But now I'm confused because latin1 seems to cater for French quite well:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

I understand ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9) to be the preferred Latin character
set for French, as it includes the Euro sign as well as a few
characters that are not in Latin-1 but are nonetheless infrequently
found in French.