On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > > 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.
In fact I just check we already have them :) This is just that soup was reloading an old version of the same class and this was not good. > >> 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. you can parse the page. > 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,. thanks for the info. > > Cheers, > Henry >
