Re: CP1252 under Unix

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 10:21:01 EST

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Christopher John Fynn wrote:
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> Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
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> > iso10646-1 (Registry=iso10646, Encoding=1; why 1?; that's the BMP)
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> Shouldn't that have been iso10646-0? The BMP is plane 0 not plane 1.

It stands for part 1 of ISO/IEC 10646, just as 8859-1 stands for part 1
of ISO 8859. 10646-2 will be the Astral Planes, when it is issued.

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