From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Terje Rosten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows-1251 language environment Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:41 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310032356.54476.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310060013.52049.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310070254.LAA11795@etlken.m17n.org> <20031007115609.GA32174@lml.bas.bg> <20031017124951.GA22226@lml.bas.bg> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066398078 2595 80.91.224.253 (17 Oct 2003 13:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 15:41:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAUqy-0001Dd-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAUqy-0008GN-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:41:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAUpw-0003jH-7f for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAUmr-0002el-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAUgl-0001ai-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAUgk-0001aI-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:30:43 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAUgj-00081g-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:30:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAUYz-0007uA-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:41 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAUYz-0008Ri-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:41 +0200 Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SAPZMprHjw7y7K6VGCmwYgNCHBk= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17206 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17206 * Anton Zinoviev | | What is the difference between CP1251 and some ISO 8859 coding system? >>From Unicode Demystified, Richard Gillam, ISBN 0-201-70052-2, page 41: Windows code page 1252, the Western European encoding for Windows, for example, is a superset of ISO 8859-1. It includes all of the Latin-1 characters, but then fills the C1 space with additional printing characters. I believe the same is true for code page 1251. The C1 space in ISO 8859 is reserved for control characters. - Terje