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Re: Unable to view letters of French alphabet

Subject: Re: Unable to view letters of French alphabet
From: "Peter Karlsson"
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:03:31 +0100
Newsgroups: opera.general
Jordi Kroon:

No, that's ANSI.

Not really ANSI, either. It's a MS Windows codepage. IIRC, the term "ANSI" comes from Microsoft once proposing these codepages for standardization with ANSI (the US standards organization), but that never happened.

There is a bug in all versions of Internet Explorer, where ISO-8859-x is actually being interpreted as Win-125x,

This practice predates Internet Explorer, it just did this to be able to display the pages that were already published. And as such, all other browsers have had to follow suit, including Opera. Unfortunately.

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