>>no, these are not equivalent. windows 1252 is a superset of iso-8859-1.
I meant equivalent in the general meaning "not quite identical". >>if a text editor/cf is told or can guess the encoding it will read it >>successfully. This is the point. The text editor can be "told" by the file in which format it is the file is in some proprietary format, like MS Word, RTF, or even HTML but not in plain .txt. A text file cannot tell in which format it is, it is suppose to be and can only be in ASCII, even if this ASCII is used as a base to encode some other format. Then all depends on what format the text editor will assume when it opens the file. There are no ways this can be decided by the application which creates the file. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342526 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
