[whatwg] Turkish encodings: ISO 8859-9 < CP1254

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu May 22 15:40:58 PDT 2008


On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Øistein E. Andersen wrote:
>
> As suggested earlier, ISO 8859-9 is a proper subset of CP1254, and IE7 
> always uses the superset.  [Actually, the name shown in the menu varies 
> -- Turkish (ISO) v. Turkish (Windows) --, but the underlying encoding 
> vector appears to be the same.]
> 
> Test pages (identical data, different Charset headers):
> 
>         <http://coq.no/X/testturk-win.php>
>         <http://coq.no/X/testturk-iso.php>
> 
> HTML5 should probably encourage this given that this is analoguous to 
> ISO-8859-1/CP1252 and Thai encodings.

Added.

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