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In article <f0878bc4-539b-4570-a138-ea413e6d9fbb@googlegroups.com>,
 wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
> Note
> The used characters are not members of the latin-1 coding
> scheme (btw an *unusable* coding).
> They are however charaters in cp1252 and mac-roman.

mac-roman is an obsolete encoding that was used in MacOS 9 and MacOS 
Classic systems of previous decades. Except in a very small and 
shrinking number of legacy applications, it isn't used in modern systems 
and hasn't been widely used for a long time.  MacOS X systems generally 
use standard Unicode encodings, usually UTF-8, for external 
representations.  Forget about mac-roman; it is not relevant.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org