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From: Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?
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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.

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Jukka Lahtinen