(By the way, the frequency of occurrence of non-US-ASCII characters in the data is very low in relation to the amount of text. So-called 8-bit characters are infrequent and usually occur in isolation.)
Maybe in English, but not when your data is in French, for example. In French you can easily have one or two accented characters every other word.

Ain't it typical again that English speaking people automatically assume that the whole world uses only English...

Well, I'm assuming that now you're just talking about your own, personal case. Yes, in that case it's very likely that accented characters are very rare. Until you start getting an international audience, that is...

BTW the difference between ISO-Latin-1 and Windows-1252 will most probably be most visible in the so-called "smart quotes", those curly quotes that bend a different way for opening and closing quotes, and the ditto curly apostrophe.

In reply to Re^3: Convert Windows-1252 Characters to Java Unicode Notation by bart
in thread Convert Windows-1252 Characters to Java Unicode Notation by Jim

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