the Windows-1252 character set that I'm suggesting to use as the basis (because even a system without Unicode installed should have at least that much
Note that this site uses UTF-8. So there is no point in sticking to Windows-1252 in the mistaken notion that it may be better supported. That said, ASCII has the advantage of being on most keyboards and of being most familiar to people. It’s also a subset of UTF-8 that can be written as single 8-bit characters.
Note that this site uses UTF-8. So there is no point in sticking to Windows-1252 in the mistaken notion that it may be better supported. That said, ASCII has the advantage of being on most keyboards and of being most familiar to people. It’s also a subset of UTF-8 that can be written as single 8-bit characters.