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Is this useful? Most Latin 1 text is really Windows 1252, which has additional characters that don't have the same regular mapping to unicode. So this conversio

• dotancohen 3y ago
  > Most Latin 1 text is really Windows 1252 I'd say that the vast majority of Latin-1 that I've encountered is just ASCII. Where have you seen Windows-1252 presented with a Latin-1 header or other encoding declaration that declared it as Latin-1?
  • masfuerte 3y ago
    Windows 1252 served as Latin 1 used to be common enough that browsers interpret a Latin 1 declaration as Windows 1252. Nowadays it seems moderately common for such text to be served with a utf-8 declaration, so it gets mangled in other ways. Or it gets imported into a CMS with no conversion or the wrong conversion, which has a similar result. You're right, ASCII is more common, but single-byte encoded prose that goes beyond ASCII is usually Windows 1252 in my experience.
    • dotancohen 3y ago
      > Windows 1252 served as Latin 1 used to be common enough that browsers > interpret a Latin 1 declaration as Windows 1252. Thank you, I had not encountered this and I was dealing a lot with improperly-encoded text when I was running gibberish.co.il (over a decade ago). What systems were serving this? IIS would be my first guess, an Intuit product would be my second.