ietf-charsets@mail.apps.ietf.org windows 1250 - another update toreview :)

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

Please review updates to windows 1250.  I used the feedback we had last year for 1252 to guide this request.

Thanks,
Shawn

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Charset name: windows-1250

Charset aliases: (None)

Suitability for use in MIME text:

  Yes, windows-1250 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
  Content-Type. Note that windows-1250 is an 8-bit charset. Care should
  be taken to choose an appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.

Published specification(s):

  1) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1250.htm

ISO 10646 equivalency table:

  http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1250.TXT

Additional information:

  UTF-8 is preferred to windows-1250 when permissible.

  Although not authoritative, the following references may also be of
  interest:

  Printed mapping table:
  Dr. International "Developing International Software, Second Edition",
  Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1583-7, 2003, p. 729-737

  Microsoft windows extended "best fit" behavior:
  http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit1250.txt

  This is an update of an existing registration of this charset. This
  charset name is in use.

  This charset is also known as Windows Code Page 1250 or cp1250 for
  short; these are NOT aliases.

  The graphic (non-control) characters of Windows-1250 are a superset of
  the graphic characters of the ISO-8859-2 charset. See the range 80 to
  9F (hex).

Person & email address to contact for further information:

  Shawn Steele
  Email: Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com

  Microsoft Corporation
  One Microsoft Way,
  Redmond, WA 98052
  U.S.A.

Intended usage: COMMON