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Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?
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On 7/24/2017 10:27 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
> On 7/22/2017 3:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> But checking the HTML 5 specs I can not find it. It does say
>> that the default encoding for eastern Europe is ISO-8859-2,
>> windows-1251 (which is close to ISO-8859-5) etc.. But I can not
>> find a place where it specify ISO-8859-1 (or windows-1252)
>> to be default for western Europe.
> 
> HTML 5 section 8.2.2.2, item 8. Or section 12.2.3.2 if you're following 
> WHATWG's version.

Yes. But it was item 9 where I wondered why no western europe.

Arne