Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 8 janvier 2007 11:44, Alan a Ãcrit :
>> (case in point: Russel's system. I was ROTFL when he proudly announced
>> he
>> was running a full iso-8859-1 system after dissing UTF-8. Last I've seen
>> the official 8bit EU encoding was iso-8859-15, and UK is part of the EU)
>
> There is no correct UK encoding. You need -14 or -15 depending upon
> language and can come horribly unstuck the moment a name is involved.

Either way it's not iso-8859-1 :)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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