Re: Nicest UTF

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 08:26:58 CST

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    Lars Kristan scripsit:

    > > I'm using ISO-8859-2.
    > In fact you're lucky. Many ISO-8859-1 filenames display correctly in
    > ISO-8859-2. Not all users are so lucky.

    It was a design point of ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4}, but not any other variants,
    that every character appears either at the same codepoint or not at all.

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