Mark Davis scripsit:

> Some more details. Usually, by 'extension' one means a superset of
> the mappings.  windows-1252 is formally disjoint from iso-8859-1 --
> not a superset -- since it has mappings for 0x80..0x9F which are
> different from iso-8859-1's mappings for the same bytes.

I don't have access to ISO 8859-1 itself, but ECMA-94 (1986), which is
supposed to be equivalent, doesn't actually define anything for 0x80..0x9F.
So I think the term "superset" is in fact justified.

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