Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encoding (viewing) on Mac OS

[Nicolas Barbier]

2011/11/16 Busser, Jim <address@hidden>:

> On 2011-11-15, at 4:39 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
>>> whereas
>>>
>>>      Western (Windows Latin 1)
>>>      Western (ISO Latin 1)
>>
>> They are identical.
>
> Says… Microsoft? But they aren't fully identical (thus not identical)

If Windows uses something referred to as “Latin 1”, AFAIK it is
supposed to be the “real” ISO 8859-1. Windows often uses Windows-1252
(or Windows-1250 for Eastern European languages), which is indeed not
the same (Windows-1252 is a superset of Latin 1, whereas Windows-1250
is rather different).

My conclusion: “Western (Windows Latin 1)” sounds like a misnomer: it
is either Windows-specific (probably Windows-1252) or not (ISO
8859-1).

> http://mail.savs.hcc.edu.tw/~chuavv/mysql/mysql4/charset.html

MySQL seems to call Windows-1252 “latin1”, but I guess that doesn't
surprise anyone.

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252>
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250>

Nicolas

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