Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
1. The link
"http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.test/msg/e027e91e7ef17f62";
doesn't appear to go to a public page. What I'm guessing is that
message was sent in Latin-15, which can't be reliably distinguished
from Latin-1. (UTF-8 would be much better of course.)
No guessing needed; check the source of Andreas' message in the Unicode
mail archive
(http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0372.html):
<!-- name="Andreas Prilop" -->
<!-- email="[email protected]" -->
<!-- subject="Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today" -->
<!-- id="[email protected]" -->
<!-- charset="ISO-8859-15" -->
Regarding the inability to distinguish 8859-15 heuristically from
8859-1, I understand the problem when there are no tags or other hints,
or for cases like Windows-1252 text declared to be 8859-1, but it seems
unlikely to me that there is much text encoded in 8859-1 (or
Windows-1252) that is tagged as 8859-15. I would think in a case like
that, it might make sense to trust the tag. I suspect the problem of
unreliable declarations is greater for most other tuples of
(declared-encoding, actual-encoding).
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org
RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s
