encoding problem CP850 to ISO_8859_9

[v.wehren]

My brain must habe been switched off or something...
Muchos gracias for switching it back on...


(Just for the record: the supposed "missing" characters are apart from in
latin1also available in iso_8859_15)

vincent



"P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <dradul at yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "v.wehren" <v.wehren at home.nl> escribió en el mensaje
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> > When trying to convert the encoding of a file originally in CP850 to
> > ISO_8859_2 (Latin9), there are some mappings causing a UnicodeError
> which is
> > rather unexpected, especially since the characters are available in
> both
> > encodings (unlike most of the "box drawing" stuff, and so on, where a
> "maps
> > to <undefined>" is  logical. The offensive characters (plus the values
> they
> > eventually should be mapped to) are:
>
> 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.
>