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Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?

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From Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid>
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Subject Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?
Date Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:05:02 +0300
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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
> On 7/25/2017 4:50 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
>> Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> writes:
>>> On 7/24/2017 9:54 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> Yes. But it was item 9 where I wondered why no western europe.
>>> The default for anything not listed is windows-1252.

>> Anything windows-specific should NEVER be used as a default.
>> Only vendor-independent standards should ever be default!

> The difference between windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1 should
> be negligible.

The main difference in many cases being that windows-1252 is
Microsoft-specific and ISO-8859-1 is a universal standard.

-- 
Jukka Lahtinen

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Anyone know anything about string encodings? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 13:22 -0700
  Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2017-07-20 17:03 -0500
    Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 06:07 -0700
    Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-21 19:47 -0400
      Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2017-07-22 12:20 -0500
        Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-22 16:40 -0400
          Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2017-07-24 09:27 -0500
            Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-24 10:54 -0400
              Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2017-07-24 16:04 -0500
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? lewbloch@gmail.com - 2017-07-24 17:40 -0700
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-25 09:16 -0400
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2017-07-25 11:50 +0300
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2017-07-25 11:51 +0300
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2017-07-25 09:39 -0500
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-25 14:34 -0400
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 13:07 +0200
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-25 09:12 -0400
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2017-07-25 18:05 +0300
                Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-25 14:31 -0400
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