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Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) |
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:54 +0900 |
Kenichi Handa writes:
> In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > If so, should we change the default priorities?
>
> I'm not sure. As it seems that windows-1252 is a superset of
> iso-8859-1, it may be ok to give windows-1252 the higher priority.
> How do iso-8859-1 users think?
Why not make a Windows-12xx coding-category? If you don't want to
advertise what it is, you could call it "ascii8" or "pseudo-ascii" or
something like that. (Wouldn't some of the obsolete Vietnamese
standards fit this too? Ie, 0-0177 are the same as ISO-646, and
0200-0377 are used for the alternate script?)
If you don't make a separate coding category for that, I don't like
the change, myself. Windows-12xx character sets are proprietary in
the sense that last I looked, the IANA registry for Windows-12xx coded
character sets pointed to internal Microsoft documents, and made no
promises about changes to those documents. As far as I know,
Microsoft added the EURO SIGN to Windows-1252 simply by editing that
internal page. There was no indication of the history of such changes
on the IANA page.
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), (continued)
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Richard Stallman, 2009/11/24
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Kenichi Handa, 2009/11/24
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/24
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/24
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/25
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Ulrich Mueller, 2009/11/25
- Re: Displaying bytes, Reiner Steib, 2009/11/26
- Re: Displaying bytes, Ulrich Mueller, 2009/11/26
- Re: Displaying bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/26
- Re: Displaying bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/26
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.),
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Kenichi Handa, 2009/11/25
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Richard Stallman, 2009/11/29
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/29
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/29
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, tomas, 2009/11/30
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, Andreas Schwab, 2009/11/30
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly, tomas, 2009/11/30
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Kim F. Storm, 2009/11/29
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/29
- Re: Displaying bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/23