Re: Update of charset windows-1252

[Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>]

> I would like to suggest something like this for windows-1252.

Couple of comments inline below.

				Ned

> ---------------------------

> Charset name: windows-1252

> Charset aliases: (None)

> Suitability for use in MIME text: Yes

> Published specification(s):

> 1) Dr. International "Developing International Software, Second Edition",
> Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1583-7, 2003, p. 743-747

> 2) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.htm

> ISO 10646 equivalency table:

I think a note about the best fit stuff that's included in these
tables might be appropriate here.

> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit1252.txt
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/readme.txt

> Additional information:

> This is an update of an existing registration of this charset. This
> charset name is in use.

> Older versions of this charset have been registered as
> ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.0-Latin-1
> and ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1.

Another alias I sometimes see is cp1252. I have no problem with omitting
this from the official list of aliases above, but would it make sense to
mention it here?

> The graphic (non-control) characters of Windows-1252 are a superset of
> the graphic characters of the ISO-8859-1 charset. See the range 80 to
> 9F (hex).

> Person & email address to contact for further information:

> Mike Ksar
> Email: mikeksar@microsoft.com

> Microsoft Corporation
> One Microsoft Way,
> Redmond, WA 98052
> U.S.A.

> Intended usage: COMMON