From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-06-12T00:01:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart Quotes

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 09:20 +0900, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> At 02:19 +0900 11 Jun 2004, Aredridel <aredridel@nbtsc.org> wrote:
> > If you speak English and the smart quotes are one byte, then iso-8859-1
> > is for you. If they're two bytes, then UTF-8 is the character set that's
> 
> This is wrong.  ISO-8859-1 doesn't include smart quotes.  You're likely
> using the windows-1252 character set (aka cp1252), a Microsoft extension
> of ISO-8859-1 that much of their software likes to claim is the actual
> standard character set.  Please accurately label the character set that
> is used following the standards.

Whoops. My apologies there. I've been using Unicode for so long now that
I forgot they curlies weren't in 8859-1. Windows 1252 is so close that
for a while, I assumed they were the same.

Aren't character sets lovely?