A.C.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is NOT a problem of windows but of using various platforms running > different code pages. In fact: The MAC is the one that uses an abstruse > variation of ISO code (called "Mac-Roman"), not the "PC" ;-)
Hmmm... it's a rant about operating systems, or am I wrong ? ;-))) I asked this very question, and the answer was more subtle... In short, today there is a ISO-8859-nn standard. it is true that the Windows-1252 is closer to ISO-8859 than Mac OS Roman. But Mac OS Roman was defined *before* ISO-8859 was defined! At this time, DOS was speaking with 7-bits ASCII + pseudo-graphic chars... For some obcure reasons, Apple didn't go into ISO-8859 comitee, when it was defined... -- Vous parlez français ? faites un tour sur le groupe francophone ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jetez un oeil sur RevoBlog <http://revoblog.free.fr> ! _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
