Hi, Just to clarify...
ISO-8859-1 is not 'Plain American English'. The charset for that is US-ASCII. ISO-8869-1 is extended ASCII (Latin1), and covers glyphs from most Western European languages. ( French (fr), Spanish (es), Catalan (ca), Basque (eu), Portuguese (pt), Italian (it), Albanian (sq), Rhaeto-Romanic (rm), Dutch (nl), German (de), Danish (da), Swedish (sv), Norwegian (no), Finnish (fi), Faroese (fo), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga), Scottish (gd), and English (en), incidentally also Afrikaans (af) and Swahili (sw), thus in effect also the entire American continent, Australia and much of Africa.) Having a -2, -3, etc... are other extended Latin charsets which add more glyphs. For example, Latin5 (ISO-8859-5) covers Cyrillic, which is not a part of ISO-8869-1. So, although ISO-8859-1 is usually a default, it doesn't mean you are typing/getting plain English. Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:36:37PM +1000, Jimmy George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hello Octavian > > embedded in the text that comes down to you in the header section - not > shown of course when you view your email or web page is > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > which means you are typing plain american english. The engines look for > 'Content-Type" and decode the charset bit. No charset implies iso-8859-1 > as the default. Plain American English. That is what shml and xml are > all about. > > I am not sure whether making it a -2 or a -3 means we cannot say 'suck > eggs' or limit the range of jokes we receive. This message is a -1 with > 'suck eggs' in quotes so it will go through. -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
