> IE of course handled these "correctly", i.e. interpreted ASCII or ISO 8859-1 to mean Windows-1252. I think this behavior is now specified by HTML5 under certa

> IE of course handled these "correctly", i.e. interpreted ASCII or ISO 8859-1 to mean Windows-1252. I think this behavior is now specified by HTML5 under certain conditions. You can leave out "under certain conditions", whatwg just plain specifies the "iso-8859-1" label identifies the windows-1252 encoding [1] [1] https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels