Latin-1 is not a subset of UTF-8.

ASCII is defined from byte 0x00 to byte 0x7F, and is a subset of UTF-8.

Latin-1 is the same as ASCII from byte 0x00 to 0x7F, but it also
defines 0x80 to 0xFF.

UTF-8 from 0x80 to 0xFF is completely different than Latin-1 over that range.

..m

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> For latin1 and swe7 should we accept them as character set specifiers for 
> ease of use? I believe they are a subset of UTF-8.
>
> Cheers,
>        -Brian
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