From 9e2d33aa99d85f53c992d53ffd02a77e9d2bf464 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Garnock-Jones Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:06:22 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Note on iso-8859-1 --- server/TODO | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/server/TODO b/server/TODO index e8ed57e..47c069f 100644 --- a/server/TODO +++ b/server/TODO @@ -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. + + ... (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. +