Problem with Windows but not with Mac (I know, it's usual!!)

[Dom]

A.C.T. <albrecht at act-net.com> wrote:

> It is NOT a problem of windows but of using various platforms running
> different code pages. In fact: The MAC is the one that uses an abstruse
> variation of ISO code (called "Mac-Roman"), not the "PC" ;-)

Hmmm... it's a rant about operating systems, or am I wrong ?

;-)))

I asked this very question, and the answer was more subtle...

In short, today there is a ISO-8859-nn standard.
it is true that the Windows-1252 is closer to ISO-8859 than Mac OS
Roman.

But Mac OS Roman was defined *before* ISO-8859 was defined!
At this time, DOS was speaking with 7-bits ASCII + pseudo-graphic
chars...

For some obcure reasons, Apple didn't go into ISO-8859 comitee, when it
was defined...


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