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In article <5gndaj$fjj@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
peter@AtHome.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
 
>On 18 Mar 1997 02:46:31 GMT, Simon Hosie <gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz.NOSPAM> wrote:
>>Jonathan Paterson:
>>> In the Windows 3 version of extended ASCII, the numbers for the same
>>> characters are 252, 233 and 226.
>>
>>  I'd rather you didn't call it "the Windows 3 version".  Call it ISO8859-1.
>
>You mean there's something in Windows that conforms to an ISO
>standard?  How did they sneak that past Bill?
It's not ISO8859-1, in fact, but code page 1252 (ANSI Latin-1), but
it almost fully conforms to ISO-8859-1.
Other code pages like 1250 (ANSI Latin-2), for instance, considerably
digress from the corresponding ISO standard.
 
Regards, 
Manfred Kiefer
 
>
>--
>Peter Moylan                                 peter@ee.newcastle.edu.au
>          http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/Moylan.html
