Re: [xsl] Character encoding in MSXML 3.0 from VB

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:14 10-01-2001 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
> (You might also wonder why Windows takes the ISO encodings and
> gratuitously shuffles the characters round:-)

To be fair, it doesn't really.  Windows CP 1252 is exactly the same as ISO 
8859-1 for characters 0-127 and 160-255.  The upper control characters 
block in ISO 8859-1 is replaced in CP 1252 by characters useful or 
necessary for western European text: oe ligatures, s and z caron, 
trademark, curly quotes and dashes of various sorts, ellipses, daggers, and 
most recently, the Euro symbol.  Not to attempt to defend Microsoft's 
standards record, but in this instance they did pretty well by not 
pretending that what they're using is a standard while still making it as 
compatible as reasonably possible.

-Chris
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