[thelist] Explain this META tag!

Cristian Secara secarica at fx.ro
Sun Mar 3 21:55:01 CST 2002


charset=Windows-1252 is Central European codepage used by Windows.
It's use is not recommended for web pages and/or e-mail, because it is
OS specific (Linux users don't have or don't *want* to have Windows
codepages installed, for example). ISO-8859-2 is a much better solution
in that case.

>It is possible that the email was sent in Unicode (2 byte character set).

If is unlikely it was sent in Unicode, because in that case the Windows
codepage specification has no meaning. Or perhaps the mailer is mad ?

Best wishes,
    Cristi





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