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RE: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3



As discussed, I am a better contact now than Mike Ksar here at
Microsoft.

I don't think that the Dr. International book should be considered as a
published specification.  I'm certain that in the event of a discrepancy
between that book and the actual behavior or the Microsoft.com/globaldev
data that the book would "lose".  It is an interesting resource for
people wanting a printed copy, but that book wasn't intended to be a
spec.

Otherwise I am happy with this draft. 

- Shawn

> ---------------------------

> 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