John Machin wrote: > Martin, I can't guess the reason for this last suggestion; why should > a Windows system use iso-8859-1 instead of cp1252?
Windows users often think that windows-1252 is the same thing as iso-8859-1, and then exchange data in windows-1252, but declare them as iso-8859-1 (in particular, this is common for HTML files). iso-8859-1 is more portable than windows-1252, so it should be preferred when the data need to be exchanged across systems. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
