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In a message on Thursday 04-13-16 Maurice Kinal said to Holger Granholm:

Good morning Maurice,

 HG> Ehhh, which one is what???

MK> According to local documentation here -> glibc's
MK> /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules;

MK> alias   ISO-IR-100//            ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   ISO_8859-1:1987//       ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   ISO_8859-1//            ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   ISO8859-1//             ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   ISO88591//              ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   LATIN1//                ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   L1//                    ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   IBM819//                ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   CP819//                 ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   CSISOLATIN1//           ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   8859_1//                ISO-8859-1//
MK> alias   OSF00010001//           ISO-8859-1//

MK> For CP1252 I see;

MK> alias   MS-ANSI//               CP1252//
MK> alias   WINDOWS-1252//          CP1252//

I don't see CP819 which is IBM's nomenclature for Latin 1 - ISO 8859-1.
Note the space between Latin and 1. Regarding CP1252, IBM lists it as
Latin 1 Windows, again without any hyphen.

Nowhere in my literature do I see "Latin1", neither "Latin-1" which I
myself have been using.

MK> Note that neither claims LATIN-1 as an alias which can be verified
MK> by many, many sources, including IANA.

Noted.

 HG> Reading text sent for example by BP does show differently.

MK> BP?  I don't know what that is nor do I know what codepage or
MK> encoding they claim as native.  If indeed CP437 and it doesn't jive
MK> with well known publications of the CP437 table of character codes
MK> then BP is wrong on it's claim.  No?

BP = Benny Pedersen.

 HG> For example the 'Æ' and 'æ' characters are typically danish

MK> Also old English and probably some other Germanic languages ...
MK> other than German that is.

Maybe, I won't argue, since I'm no linguistic expert.

MK> The most notable ones are the ø and ö characters in the word
MK> fjørd and fjörd.  I think fjørd should be given presidence since
MK> there are more fjørds in Norway than fjörds in Sweden I believe.

To state it in PC8, the deep gulfs along the norwegian coast are called
fjord's in the scandinavian languages. The open sea areas in an archi-
pelago are named 'fj„rd'. Only in that last expression does conversion
from/to UTF become necessary.

MK> ... Don't cry for me I have vi.

Don't cry for me either, I have QEdit and TSE!


Have a nice day,

Holger

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