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Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3
OK, here is draft no. 3.
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 an 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.
This charset is also known as Windows Code Page 1252 or cp1252 for
short; these are NOT aliases.
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