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Re: Displaying bytes
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: Displaying bytes |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:16:46 +0100 |
>>>>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Reiner Steib wrote:
>>> I'm not sure. As it seems that windows-1252 is a superset of
>>> iso-8859-1,
> It is, yes.
They are identical, except for the range from 0x80 to 0x9f, where
ISO-8859-1 assigns control characters [1]. Look into the log file of
an xterm (TERM=xterm-8bit) and you'll see them.
>> I wonder why one would even *think* of changing Emacs's default to
>> a Microsoft proprietary "code page". :-(
> Just because it has "windows" in its name? IIRC it is registered at
> IANA.
Yes, in the "vendor" range [2], together with all variants of EBCDIC
that ever existed. ;-)
Whereas ISO-8859-1 is an official ISO standard.
Ulrich
[1] ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT
[2] http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
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- Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/22
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Richard Stallman, 2009/11/23
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Per Starbäck, 2009/11/23
- 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
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- Re: Displaying bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/26
- Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/25
- 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
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- 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
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