Re: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 2

[Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>]

This looks good to me, except for two points:

- I'd like to get a word from Mike to make sure that he/Microsoft
  is fine with this.
- There is a confusion about aliases. It says "aliases: None",
  but then later says "Another name that is sometimes used for
  this charset is cp1252.". I think it is important to make it
  clear that this is not an alias.

Reagards,     Martin.


At 01:26 06/10/25, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>Based on all the feedback on the windows-1252 update, here is draft no. 2.
>
>Erik
>
>---------------------------
>
>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


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