Hey mark!

 MK>> so-called latin-1 has been misidentified as iso-8859-1 by many (too
many).
 MK>> [...]
 MK>> BTW latin1 is iso-8859-1.

 ml> the above seems contridictory... is it??

Nope.  latin1 is not equal to latin-1.

For example;

  printf "A M\u00f8\u00f8se once bit my sister" | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1

works but;

  printf "A M\u00f8\u00f8se once bit my sister" | iconv -f utf8 -t latin-1

will exit with;

  iconv: conversion to `latin-1' is not supported
  Try `iconv --help' or `iconv --usage' for more information.

When researching the problem I came across some references to cp1252 but nobody
would go out on a limb over it.  If you search IANA they produce output for
LATIN-1 but no insight about conversion to any particular 8-bit encoding.  From
observations it seems to me that the Windows people use cp1252 for latin-1. 
Björn Felton comes to mind but I've seen others totally get it wrong when they
assume iso-8859-1.

Anyhow the bottomline here is to avoid it like the plague.  Besides cp1252
works with iconv so it isn't like there isn't a suitable encoding that will
work when targetting most 8-bit charset users these days.

Life is good,
Maurice

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