On September 27, 2002 22:49, Joel Mawhorter wrote: > 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?
Opps, check first, speak second. You're right CP1252 is a suberset of ISO-8859-1. I guess I should read James 1:19 more often. :) > 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
