Subj : Automatically promote UTF-8 in editors?
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Sep 23 2022 09:27 pm

Hey Tim!

 TS> ISO 8859-1

I was guessing you'd say that.  Care to find a credible source that LATIN-1 is indeed an alias for ISO 8859-1?  All my searches thus far show no such alias as LATIN-1 for anything, nevermind 8859-1.  However there used to be an entry on iana that credited to win-3.11 which I found curious and could not find any other reference to this.  If I can track it down again I will make a note of it just in case someone wants to know.

 TS> But the question somehow implies there is something interesting

Deepends on what you find interesting.  Bottomline is that many say ISO 8859-1 but are actually delivering cp1252.

For the record, both iana and glibc claim LATIN1 is the correct alias for ISO 8859-1 as well as many, many other sources including at least one MS based site.

Interesting?  I don't think so but if there is good reason to drop LATIN-1 then officially it should be done.  There is too big a difference between ISO 8859-1 and CP1252 to continue ignoring this.

Life is good,
Maurice

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