Subject: ? character sets: ISO 8859-1 vs Windows-1252

From: "h.bork" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:41:20 +0100 (CET)

Hello ye altogether,
does anybody among us 
happen to know, whether there's 
any real difference between 
these two character sets 
	a	ISO 8859-1 
	b	Windows-1252
or whether it's just two different labels 
on the same sort of marmelade.

Using Pine with ISO 8859-1 
makes Windows-1252 mails 
look pretty normal,

TIA & kind regards, hbk ;-)

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From: Bob Rasmussen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:46:38 -0800 (PST)

> Using Pine with ISO 8859-1 

I believe the only difference is in the areas of hex 80 to 9F. ISO 8859-x does
not define characters in this region, but Windows (in various
codepages) does. So ISO 8859-1 is a subset of Windows-1252.

This could show up if a Windows-generated message contained "smart
quotes" such as hex 91 to 94.

The reason this area is avoided in ISO is that in ANSI-style terminals, bytes
in the 80-9f range can be considered 8-bit analogs of escape sequences. For
instance, hex 9B is treated as "ESC [" (hex 1B 5B).

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