Buck Golemon wrote:
The status of these 5 characters is already in the best fit mappings
document pointed to by the IANA registry entry for windows-1252,
which is strong as I’m willing to go for them.
I don't understand the relation between bestfit1252 and cp1252. Could
you clarify it for me?
If I read the mapping file right, bestfit1252 declares a definition of
cp1252, so it would make sense (to me) if the corresponding parts of
the two files matched.
As far as I can see, the w3c-cp1252 corresponds to bestfit1252.
The best-fit mapping tables comprise not only an MBTABLE ("multibyte"),
which maps code points in the Microsoft code page to Unicode, but also a
WCTABLE ("wide character"), which maps in the other direction.
In this case, the MBTABLE in the 1252 best-fit table does match the
WHATWG definition of 1252—it's a rather obvious and straightforward
extension. But neither mapping table was derived directly from the
other, and the MBTABLE is an extension of 1252, not an attempt to
redefine it.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
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