26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
4:30 p.m.
On Thu, January 26, 2012 7:46 am, D Garcia wrote:
On 01/25/2012 05:23 PM, Carlo Traverso wrote:
Anybody up for writing a latin1tame program?
latin1tame exists, and is called 1252to7. And it sends ñ to n.
Not exactly. Windows codepage 1252 is NOT Latin-1 (iso-8859-1). Microsoft replaced the control characters from 128-159 with other characters. The correct Microsoft codepage for Latin-1 (iso-8859-1) is Windows-28591.
But the MSWindows additions are reserved in Latin-1, so if you have a valid Latin-1 file it will /not/ contain any of the Windows specific characters. Thus, 1252to7 is functionally equivalent to latin1tame; they will both behave identically on a Latin-1 file.