> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list