Claude Schneegans wrote:
>  >>(which you know doesn't contain the euro symbol)
> 
> Here we go again...

indeed.

> ISO8859-1 does not contain œ either, used in many French words;

right. another thing to watch out for.

> Every body knows this and is able to use the HTML or numeric 
> representation instead;

no, i wouldn't say everybody knows. else the old i18n mm forums wouldn't 
have had so many postings on this subject.

> Anyway, the windows-1252 code, which is a super set of  ISO8859-1 does 

right but again hardly everybody knows this.

> and both MSIE and Mozilla display it, even when instructed to work with 
> ISO8859-1.

and all the world's databases, etc.?

> It appears that both Microsoft and Mozilla have decided to support 
> Windows-1252 codes, even when in ISO8859-1 mode.

based on what evidence?

> Try this in an HTML file: <META http-equiv="content-type" 
> content="text/html;charset=iso8859-1">
> put here a character code 128, and it works.

html's not cf but you already know that.

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