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

[Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>]

Are the graphic character mappings of windows-1250 really a superset
of iso-8859-2? Do the bytes in the range 0xA0 to 0xFF map to the same
Unicodes?

I already knew of the windows-1252 and -1254 supersets, but not -1250.
Maybe the differences are "minor"?

Erik

On 6/12/07, Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>