- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:43:53 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www international <www-international@w3.org>
Paul Langer wrote: > The XML spec recommends "that character encodings registered (as > charsets) with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA], other > than those just listed, should be referred to using their registered > names" (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.html#charencoding). > > Is there a registered name for the Microsoft flavour of Latin 1 (Windows > Code Page 1252)? The answer is No. Microsoft's position is that as WCP 1252 is a superset of ISO 8859-1, it is safe to label pages encoded using WCP 1252 as "ISO-8859-1". This is very naughty. If you find a Web page that does this, you should complain to the relevant Webmaster. Misha ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misha Wolf Email: misha.wolf@reuters.com 85 Fleet Street Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th International Unicode Conference, 8-11 Sep 1998, USA, www.unicode.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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