Bob Rosenberg replied to Antoine Leca: > > Since Windows starts with the same letter as > >Word --or is the reason that they both come from the same company. > >No! I cannot believe that-- there are a couple of requirements > >that makes effectively the "other" codepages slighty incompatible, > >such as the necessary presence for � at position B5 (because this > >is the character Word uses when you ask it to "display" the spaces, > >and this is hard-coded in the product). > > Last time I looked, B5 was not in the x80-x9F C1 range where CP125x differs > from ISO-8859-x. Thus this is a non-issue. Uh, folks, it's 0xB7 = U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT. Encoded, by the way, at 0xB7 in most, but not all, of the 8859 parts: 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16; and in all the Windows 125X code pages. 0xB7 in ISO 8859-2 and 8859-4 is CARON (U+02C7), in 8859-5 is CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZE (U+0417), and in 8859-14 is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH DOT ABOVE (U+1E56). Perhaps some cognitive dissonance involved here with 0x95 = U+2022 BULLET in all the Windows 125X code pages (but missing from all the 8859 parts). This is one of the common Windows characters causing corrupted display in misidentified 8859-1 display contexts on the Internet. --Ken
