Re: $assumed_charset settings (was: special chars)

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Alain Bench wrote:

> Hello Christoph!
>
> On Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 13:30:12 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
>
> > CP1251 (iirc, the last digit could be different) is what windows
> > usually uses. It is a superset of latin1, with characters in the
> > 128-159 range, mainly some quotes. That could also be a good guess.
>
>    Right: CP-1252 is the optimal $assumed_charset for westerners at
> large, today. It's what I use and advice. It's 95% efficient on all
> sorts of non-MIME messages, from Windows mailers, from Usenet, from
> various webmails, and so on...

well it's widely used, but the characters in the 128-159 range are mostly 
not quotes.  It is true that the most-used of those 32 characters are the 
(no more than 6 ;-) characters which have been mis-mapped to/from Unicode 
by overhelpful applications.

Aside from the fact that it includes the Euro symbol, I'd tend to disagree
with both comments.

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