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Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?

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From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?
Date Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:34:21 -0400
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On 7/25/2017 10:39 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
> On 7/25/2017 3:51 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
>> Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> writes:
>>> 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!
>>
>> And in the case of character sets, ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15.
> 
> If you ever have a choice, choose UTF-8. Do not pick ISO-8859-* 
> charsets, particularly since you stand a good chance of mislabelling 
> them.

Not so sure.

UTF-8 is common today. ISO-8859-1 was common many years ago.

Today it is common to specify charset. Many years ago it was
not common to specify charset.

I think the probability of unspecified being ISO-8859-1
is pretty high.

And ISO-8859-1 interoreted as UTF-8 does not look good.

> (Much text labelled ISO-8859-1 is actually Windows-1252. What's 
> the difference? ISO-8859-1 forbids the C1 area, Windows-1252 fills that 
> with some extra characters).

I doubt that those are that widely used.

Arne

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  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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  Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-20 20:18 -0400

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