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Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?

From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?
Date 2017-07-25 14:31 -0400
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On 7/25/2017 11:05 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
> 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.

There is a huge difference from standard perspective.

My comment about the difference being negligible was
only for the actual rendering.

Arne

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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
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          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
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                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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