On Thursday 05 February 2004 20:00, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> > US English with 8859-15 (Latin 9?) charset? Can I as what OS this is?
> > It's just that it seems like an odd combination to me - or am I
> > displaying my ignorance here?
>
> FYI, 8859-15 is just 8859-1 with the Euro sign in place of the generic
> currency sign and some other minor changes. As you might imagine, in
> Europe it is (becoming?) the default, and since most people in the rest
> of the world probably won't ever notice the difference, you can expect
> it to become the preferred choice of operating systems there as well.
Yeah - Harald Fuchs said the same thing (but it seems to have drifted off
list). I was getting mixed up with 8859-14 (Latin 8) which is the Celtic one
- blame it on being a Welshman.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
