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

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Mar 5 17:32:52 EST 2004


On Friday, March 5, 2004, at 03:01 PM, Dom wrote:

> 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...

Thanks for this summary.  It helps in thinking about today's solutions 
and about what to hope for in the future.

Dar Scott



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