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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>> I think that in most cases ISO-8859-15 is used because of the euro
>> sign, which is not convertible to ISO-8859-1.
>
> I might misunderstand you, but ISO-8859-1.is used a lot more than
> ISO-8859-15 right now.

I think ShengHuo meant: in most of the cases where -15 is used, it is
used for the euro sign; not: -15 is used more often than -1.

So unifying -15 and -1 to -1 is likely to cause lossage: the original
-15 part probably used to euro, and the unified message won't be able
to.


paul