string.encode on HP-UX

Christopher T King squirrel at WPI.EDU
Wed Jul 21 14:40:51 EDT 2004


On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Michael Piotrowski wrote:

> Christopher T King <squirrel at WPI.EDU> writes:
> 
> > My guess is roman8 is HP-UX's version of latin_1.  Setting an alias fixes 
> > this:
> 
> No, HP Roman-8 is *not* the same as Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1).  You can
> find a table at, e.g., <http://www.kostis.net/charsets/hproman8.htm>.

Well, the first 128 characters are the same.  I'd say that's close enough, 
right?


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