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On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:25:23PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> If you're using English, the default is iso-8859-1 (us english), which |
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> does not contain many characters used in other Latin-based languages |
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> that have things like accents. |
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> iso-8859-15 is west european languages, which has all the English |
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> language characters, plus stuff like the circumflex and other accents, |
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> and umlauts and of course, the Euro symbol, since one needs those |
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> characters to type effectively in a West European language, whereas you |
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> don't if you're typing in US English. |
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Well, actually iso-8859-1 is also known as Latin-1, and not without a |
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reason. It _has_ all the usual latin-based thingies and the only |
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difference between iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 is the euro symbol |
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(which no one should use as we have the letter e that does the thing |
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quite nicely. Although euro does replace the oh-so-often-used |
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"international currency symbol" or some such). |
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Mikko |
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http://www.solidtech.com |
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