Re: Switchin Bitchin Audio Amplifier

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:25:58 -0800, D from BC wrote:

Experiment: Maybe the E symbol will show up.
Alt+ 0128

? <<Should be here..

Nope, just a square box.

First, the message headers have:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-1 doesn't have the Euro sign; you need ISO-8859-15 (or Unicode,
or one of Microsoft's non-standard win-12xx encodings).

Second, the actual character is \200 (octal 200, decimal 128; what I
would expect from Alt+0128), which is a control code in the ISO-8859-*
encodings.

I'm guessing that the encoding should have been windows-1252, i.e.
Microsoft's "enhanced"[1] version of ISO-8859-1, with graphic characters
in place of the upper control codes (128-159).

[1] aka Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Windows software tends to assume that ISO-8859-1 means windows-1252, while
software written according to the standards assumes that ISO-8859-1 means
ISO-8859-1.


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