On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Alex Strickland <s...@mweb.co.za> wrote: > I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection of > latin1 as the 1 byte set. My impression was that if some set of characters > was chosen that included all characters commonly used in French then all > would be well with the world. > > But now I'm confused because latin1 seems to cater for French quite well: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
I understand ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9) to be the preferred Latin character set for French, as it includes the Euro sign as well as a few characters that are not in Latin-1 but are nonetheless infrequently found in French. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
