On Jan 26, 2010, at 17:54, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > Bob Cronin wrote: >> We're contemplating changing the default translate table used by all our VM >> SMTP's from the ancient STANDARD table shipped with the product to an 8 bit >> table (specifically 10470819 TCPXLBIN). > > When I looked into extended ASCII and EBCDIC code pages last year, I > figured the Euro sign would probably be the next complaint I got, and in > pages that included it the best match I found was between 1140 (US > EBCDIC with Euro) and 1252 (Windows-1252). All the same printable > characters are in both. I din't like going Microsoft-specific, but ISO > 8859-1 predates the Euro, and ISO 8859-15 had 7 other special characters > defined in EBCDIC swapped out for letters with diacritics and ligatures. > Think Unicode. What'll you do if someone sends you a document in UTF-8? 256 characters is _so_ Twentieth Century.
-- gil
