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Re: Character encoding in MSXML 3.0 from VB
At 10:14 10-01-2001 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
>(You might also wonder why Windows takes the ISO encodings and
>gratuitously shuffles the characters round:-)
To be fair, it doesn't really. Windows CP 1252 is exactly the same as ISO
8859-1 for characters 0-127 and 160-255. The upper control characters
block in ISO 8859-1 is replaced in CP 1252 by characters useful or
necessary for western European text: oe ligatures, s and z caron,
trademark, curly quotes and dashes of various sorts, ellipses, daggers, and
most recently, the Euro symbol. Not to attempt to defend Microsoft's
standards record, but in this instance they did pretty well by not
pretending that what they're using is a standard while still making it as
compatible as reasonably possible.
-Chris
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