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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
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In a message of Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:52:38 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen writes:
>Jussi Piitulainen writes:
>> Has the world adopted UTF-8 as the default charset now or what? (I'll
>> be only glad to hear that it has, if it has, but a reference to some
>> sort of internet standard would be nice.)

I don't think so.  Americans and other English speakers still love ASCII.
but the ISO charsets are rapidly going the way of the buggywhip. :)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php

Laura