Re: My draft for windows 1252

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:52:57PM -0800, Shawn Steele wrote:
> > 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.

As reported earlier the name cp1252 is also in use on unix-like systems in the
program recode. The coding there has slightly different semantics than under MS
Windows for the windows-1252 charset.

One question: is it the intention that the windows-1252 be apllicable
generally, eg for email, and should this then be said in the
registration?

best regards
keld