Re: [xml-dev] Text/xml with omitted charset parameter

[Bart Schuller <schuller+xml-dev@lunatech.com>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:58:29PM +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> I believe this is wrong. Can someone confirm that the correct
> encoding is iso8859-15 (i.e. the 8859-n encoding which supercedes
> 8859-1 by having the Euro character at 0x80)?  (Sorry, no time today to
> check myself.)    Whatever it is, we should start using it
> where we would previously use 8859-1, I expect.

Nope,

in 8859-15 the Euro is at 0xA4. 0x80 is not used in any of the iso-8859-n
encodings, so I suspect it's what Microsoft uses in one of the supersets
that they use.

See http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html for what's in the 8859-n
encodings.

-- 
Bart.