Re: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3

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

Mike and Shawn,

Would you like to change the contact person to Shawn?

And does the rest of this update text look good to you too?

Erik

On 11/5/06, Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> wrote:
> > OK, here is draft no. 3.
>
> I think this looks good.
>
>                                 Ned
>
> > ---------------------------
>
> > 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
>