Re: UTF-8, OSTA-UDF [why?], Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberish

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de)
22 Aug 1997 13:50:45 +0200


Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@sub994.sub.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Yeah ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-2 --- the MOST TRIVIAL CASE OF ALL!
> Printing ISO-8859-1 on ISO8859-2 will already work very nicely for most of
> the european's (If You include the central ones, then they really become the
> majority :-). Without ANY translations in between...

Why do you think these are different charsets? There are differences
and it is not trivial. Go and ask some Polish people whether they
have no problems reading all these texts encoded in Latin1.

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