RE: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3

[Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>]

What about just exchanging items 1) and 2) in the registration?

Regards,    Martin.

At 09:17 06/11/07, Shawn Steele wrote:
>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


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