Note on iso-8859-1

2013-02-04 10:06:22 -05:00 · 2013-02-04 10:06:22 -05:00 · 9e2d33aa99
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@ -100,3 +100,9 @@ display purposes. Perhaps it comes down to the fact that this is a
 *display* hint, not an *interpretation* hint.

   ... it should be an interpretation hint, then.
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+   ... (much later addition:) OTOH, iso-8859-1 is an 8-bit character
+   set with a one-to-one mapping of characters to bytes. So it becomes
+   possible to manipulate and transmit binary data using iso-8859-1
+   in ways that aren't available to utf-8.
+