On September 27, 2002 20:33, Chris Little wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Joel Mawhorter wrote: > > Are there any encodings that we currently use besides UTF-8 (given that > > UTF-8 is a superset of ISO-8859-1)? > > We use Codepage 1252, which is really the default whenever Encoding=UTF-8 > is not specified. Unicode is a superset of ISO-8859-1, but UTF-8 isn't > technically. And Codepage 1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1 I believe. > There are only a handful of differeces between them at least.
Why use a Windows specific encoding for a cross-platform library? I don't think Codepage 1252 could be a superset of ISO-8859-1; aren't they both one byte encodings? Maybe just really close? Do we use anything above 0x7f in Codepage 1252? I assume all the european stuff is up there. What about Hebrew and Greek? Do we use UTF-8 for that? Sorry for all the questions. I'm just trying to figure out what needs to be dealt with for the searching stuff. Thanks, Joel > --Chris
