On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:59 10AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Do we need 1252 and 1250?
? Do we need converters for both? If we want to be able to read files saved in either character set, then yes. > What is the difference? I saw 1253 is for greek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cp1250 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cp1252 5-line summaries at the top, you can see the specific differences in the tables. > > Right now I change Soup to work with 1250 instead of an old bogus 1252 > > Stef I'm not sure what "work with" means in the context of Soup. Encoding in 1250 "works" fine if the non-english text you're writing is mostly Polish/Hungarian etc. It's a bit less suited for say, norwegian or french, as it lacks characters like æ, ø, å and Œ,. Cheers, Henry
