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

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