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slt2021 on Aug 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12...

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thank you, I learned nice trick today.

re windows1252 - this could be driven by system encoding settings, for most people it is 1252, but for eastern europe it is windows-1251.

when viewed from IBM z mainframe - encoding will be something like IBM EBCDIC

capitainenemo on Aug 22, 2023 [–]

Well, I'm on Linux - system encoding set to UTF-8 which is pretty much standard there. But I think the "windows-1252 for quirks" is just driven by what was dominant back when the majority of quirky HTML was generated decades ago.

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