Posts tagged ‘windows 1252’

Why is it so difficult to stick to iso-8859-1?

I guess I’m being pedantic but this is starting to irritate me. For all you people who create web content out there: iso8859-1 is not equal to windows-1252!

I’m increasingly coming across pages where this is an issue. It seems most browsers (IE, firefox, possibly Opera too) treat iso-8859-1 as windows-1252, which means most users don’t have to deal with pages like this. I can’t understand why FLOSS people can’t get it right, and it’s downright embarassing when Debian-related sites get it wrong ;-)