Re: charset="Windows-1252"

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> That would be the correct solution.  AFAIK "Windows-1252" isn't a
>> legal charset parameter to text/plain.

> Why not? 

Because of this statement from section 4.1.2 (not 4.1.1 as I said
earlier. Sorry!) of RFC2046. at the bottom of page 9:

The defined charset values are:

    (1)   US-ASCII -- as defined in ANSI X3.4-1986 [US-ASCII].

    (2)   ISO-8859-X -- where "X" is to be replaced, as
          necessary, for the parts of ISO-8859 [ISO-8859].  Note
          that the ISO 646 character sets have deliberately been
          omitted in favor of their 8859 replacements, which are
          the designated character sets for Internet mail.  As of
          the publication of this document, the legitimate values
          for "X" are the digits 1 through 10.

For easy reference: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt

> Several years ago, people from Microsoft bothered to register their
> charsets at ISO.  At least I believe I've found windows-1250 (aka
> CP1250, used for Croatian characters) over there.

And...?

IIRC "Windows-1252" is "extended ISO-8859-1", with additional crud in
both the control character positions, and the range 128-159.