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Re: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3



> OK, here is draft no. 3.

I think this looks good.

				Ned

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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