- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- CC: Lenny Turetsky <LTuretsky@salesforce.com>, "W3intl (E-mail)" <www-international@w3.org>
Martin Duerst scripsit:
> On tough end, it's actually impossible to distinguish between
> iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2 for German texts, because the bytes for
> the characters used are exactly the same. But maybe in this case,
> it doesn't matter too much.
It is a curious fact, not mentioned by anybody but me AFAIK, that
over the joint repertoire of iso-8859-[1-4], every character
is encoded in each charset either with the same octet or else not at all.
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