Re: Assume CP1252

David E. Wheeler writes:

> I suggest we switch from Latin-1 to CP1252. The reasons are:
> 
> * CP1252 is effectively a superset of Latin-1.
> 
> * Sometimes characters valid in CP1252 but not in Latin-1 appear in Pod,
> 
> * By assuming CP1252 instead of Latin-1, such characters would be
>   properly decoded when parsing Pod, thus making them come out right in
>   the resulting outputs. Latin-1 should be unaffected.

Good idea.

Also, this is already what HTML specifies: on encountering an HTML
document which claims to be in Latin-1, an HTML parser must treat that
as an alias for CP1252.

Smylers
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