Update of charset windows-1252, draft 2

[Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>]

Based on all the feedback on the windows-1252 update, here is draft no. 2.

Erik

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Charset name: windows-1252

Charset aliases: (None)

Suitability for use in MIME text:

Yes, windows-1252 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
Content-Type. Note that windows-1252 is an 8-bit charset. Care should
be taken to choose the appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.

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:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.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 name that is sometimes used for this charset is cp1252.

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).

Microsoft has also published the table used with the "best fit"
feature in their APIs:

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

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