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Lee Sau Dan <danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scripsit:
ISO-8859-1 has been deprecated: it lacks the Euro sign. People
nowadays use ISO-8859-15, or simply UTF-8.
Please refrain from taking ISO-8859-15 seriously, and especially from
propagating its use. There is no indication of ISO-8859-1 being deprecated
or, speaking of realities, ISO-8859-15 taking over.
The euro sign is seldom needed, since the word "euro" is short enough
(though it seems to pose some problems - people even spell it as capitalized
in languages that do not capitalize currency names!). When it is used, it is
most often used either in the Windows Latin 1 (windows-1252) encoding or in
the UTF-8 encoding. There was never real need for ISO-8859-15, just
political pressure to create yet another 8-bit encoding to glorify the euro.
And it causes many problems, since E-mail programs, www browsers, and other
software may well fail to recognize and process this encoding while they are
quite happy with the common and realistic approaches.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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