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RE: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 2

At 08:09 06/10/31, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>
>Keld J$BS(Bn Simonsen

>> I was wrong. It is not in rfc 1345, and not in the IANA registry.
>> I only have it in my updated tables, which are, however,
>> used in the Unix recode program. So the cp1252 name is free for
>> registration. Personally, as this name is not used in Microsoft
>windows
>> software, and used for something different, but similar in Unix-like
>
>That, I think is REALLY bad. If "cp1252" is used at all as a
>character encoding designation, it should be equivalent to
>using "windows-1252", whatever the system.

I have checked iconv on cygwin. It lists CP1252 as being
equivalent with WINDOWS-1252 and MS-ANSI. The iconv on Fedora
Linux that I tested unfortunately does not say which encoding
labels are equivalent.

Regards,    Martin.

#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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