Re: My draft for windows 1252

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:53:57AM -0800, Shawn Steele wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I didn't realize that the coding was different in the cases discussed before, although I'm curious if those differences are intentional or accidental (which digresses somewhat)

I have not checked the actual codepoints. What I meant was that the
cp1252 encoding in recode has semantics to use the mnemonics scheme of
RFC1345 to encode other characters, actually all of 10646 via extension
mechanisms.

best regards
keld