But may be we could ask to Microsoft to map officially C1 controls on the remaining holes of windows-1252, to help improve the interoperability in HTML5 with a predictable and stable behavior across HTML5 applications. In that case the W3C needs not doing anything else and there's no need to update the IANA registry.
2012/11/21 Murray Sargent <murr...@exchange.microsoft.com> > Phillipe commented: “(even if later Microsoft decides to map some other > characters in its own "windows-1252" charset, like it did several times and > notably when the Euro symbol was mapped)”.**** > > ** ** > > Personal opinion, but I’d be very surprised if Microsoft ever changed the > 1252 charset. The euro was added back in 1999 when code pages were still > used a lot. Code pages in general are pretty much irrelevant today except > for reading legacy documents. They are virtually never used internally in > modern software. UTF-8,UTF-16, and UTF-32 are what are used these days. >
