> 150 aka \x96 doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) is a
> superset of ISO 8859-1 (one hyphen) and adds the not-very-useful-AFAICT
> control codes \x80 to \x9F.

To disambiguate the two, when I want to refer to the one with the
control characters, I use the name "IANA ISO-8859-1" or "the IANA
version of Latin-1", or some such, to reflect the fact that it's
not the ISO standard, but the (unfortunately differing) IANA
registration thereof.

Regards,
Martin
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