RE: My draft for windows 1252

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>]

> An example of the problem is where component A thinks that cp936 means one thing, and system B
> thinks it means another.
 
I agree completely.  Unfortunately that already seems to be common to some extent (although more of a problem with the iso-2022-xx code pages than these).  I suspect with the 932/936 CJK code pages this already happens for the existing names/aliases.
 
The opposite problem is that some application uses cp1252 (as apparently Java can), and another application may not recognize that alias at all, in which case all of the characters effectively break.
 
I'm amiable either way.
 
- Shawn