encoding problem CP850 to ISO_8859_9

Laurent Szyster laurent.szyster at q-survey.be
Thu May 23 13:15:43 EDT 2002


"P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" wrote:
> 
> I suggest you check your target encodings first and ask again.
> Your suppositions are incorrect. ISO-8859-9 is Latin 5 (Western
> Europe plus Turkish) and ISO-8859-15 *is* Latin 9 (Western Europe
> plus Euro Currency Sign) --- that is, the nineth Latin encoding
> (== using the Roman alphabet) among all the character encodings
> defined under the ISO-8859 standard.
> 
> Furthermore, the characters you report as missing, Eth, Thorn,
> *do not* exist in ISO-8859-2 (Latin 2 Central Europe). They exist
> only in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1 Western Europe) encoding.

There's no match for peer support. And this all gets archived
and indexed. Years have passed and I'm still amazed.


Laurent



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