Displaying Windows-1252 encoded URL in field
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Wed Aug 23 12:36:03 EDT 2006
On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> Despite this function's name (and despite what it says in the
> dictionary), this built-in function converts from ansi (a.k.a.
> Windows-1252) to Mac roman.
Microsoft uses so-called ANSI to refer to any of many code pages, not
just Windows-1252. (Microsoft's use of ANSI is fraudulent and should
be avoided, thus the use of Windows-1252 is appropriate here.)
Codes 80-9F are not used in ISO-8859-1, but most are used in
Windows-1252. The isoToMac() function does indeed translate most of
these suitably for Windows-1252, but notably does not translate the
Euro (80), mentioned in BZ 3681.
Thanks for mentioning that the function works on Windows-1252,
Martin. I had done a quick check at one time and must have goofed,
because I came away thinking otherwise.
Dar Scott
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