Every one of your browsers—Opera, Firefox, Konqueror and Opera Mobile—will default to the Windows-1252 character encoding if wrongly told by the creator of the HTML document that the text of the document is in the Latin‑1 (ISO 8859‑1) character encoding. It was exactly this behavior of these popular web browsers that influenced the W3C to standardize this practice in its specification of HTML5—a willful violation of existing standards.

How many existing cross-platform Perl scripts treat characters in the range from 80 thru 9F as ISO 8859‑1 control codes? Maybe lots of them do. I don't know.

Jim

In reply to Re^4: Windows-1252 characters from \x{0080} thru \x{009f} (source-code encoding) by Jim
in thread Windows-1252 characters from \x{0080} thru \x{009f} by Jim

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