- From: Michael Adams <linux_mike@paradise.net.nz>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:46:14 +1200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:34:59 +0200 Frank Ellermann wrote: > > Andreas Prilop wrote: > > > Please explain what *you* mean by "Latin-1". > > ECMA 94 2nd ed. G0 + G1 with Latin alphabet #1 in G1 and > ECMA 48 5th ed. C0 + C1. > > I found the ECMA tie-in to ISO 8859-1 Latin-1, dated March 85 and June 86. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#History Though not the definitive authority, i get this from that page. There are two encodings: "ISO 8859-1" and "ISO-8859-1" note the hyphen versus space after ISO. I also see this, perhaps surprising, paragraph which is a little thin on references for it's claims: *** quote *** ISO-8859-1 is (according to the standards at least) the default encoding of documents delivered via HTTP with a MIME type beginning with "text/". It is the default encoding of the values of certain descriptive HTTP headers, and is the standard encoding used by the X Window System on most Unix machines in locales which use that character set. It was also the basis of the repertoire of characters allowed in HTML 3.2 documents (HTML 4.0, however, is based on Unicode). *** end quote *** Note the ISO-8859-1 quoted above is not the ECMA encoding but the latter one. In reality i do not know if this adds enlightenment or shows me up as a waste of space ;) I merely wanted to acquaint myself with the issues being debated here to see what the fuss is about. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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