> The very fact that most of them can be reduced to ASCII and people still > find the resulting text useful and accurate to the original is a sign > that the important characters in English are in ASCII. And all the > standard transliterations - em-dashes -> --, c-cedilia -> c, e-acute, > e-grave -> e, o-umlaut -> o, shaped quotes -> " and ' - are from > characters in Windows-1252.
Well, wouldn't you expect an American standard to properly encode the important characters for English? I would. Only ISO has the luxury of encoding "Western Europe languages" without catering properly to French and some Nordic language (sorry, forgot which; as for French, I am referring to the lack of oe ligature in iso-8859-1). YA
