Re: Problem with Encoding

[David Cantrell]

John Delacour wrote:
At 12:33 pm +0000 18/2/05, David Cantrell wrote:
First of all iso-8859-1 does not contain the Euro sign.  The 
character set you probably intend is Windows-1252
No he doesn't, he wants iso-8859-15
I doubt it very much
If he says he wants ISO 8859 1 and he says he wants the Euro sign, then 
he wants ISO 8859 15 which is identical to 8859 1 but with the generic 
currency symbol replaced with the Euro symbol, and a few rarely used 
characters replaced with slightly less rarely used letters.

>                      but you seem to have inside information.
That's funny, so do you when you claim he probably intends some odd 
proprietary Microsoft thing from their legacy "Windows" operating 
system.  Using that is dangerous both because whether the euro character 
is present in the character set depends on which version of windows-1252 
you use, and also because software support for it is poor.

> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use Encode;
> $euro = "\x{20ac}";
> $mac = encode("MacRoman", $euro);
> $cp1252 = encode("cp1252", $euro);
> $latin9 = encode("iso-8859-15", $euro);
> print "$mac $cp1252 $latin9";
That prints a capital-U with circumflex (I think, it's hard to see), 
followed by two spaces, followed by a Euro symbol, proving my point 
rather elegantly.  Thankyou!

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