ISO-8859-n were pretty common in Europe, because they were the default charset o...

obtu · on Feb 6, 2012

They aren't the default windows charsets. Windows code pages tend to be close, with differences here and there that are impossible to sniff for.

guard-of-terra · on Feb 6, 2012

ISO-8859-n is not Unicode.

sqrt17 · on Feb 6, 2012

ISO-8859-n is not ASCII either, so if your software is not Unicode-aware (or encoding-aware) at all, things will break.

olavk · on Feb 6, 2012

They are considered unicode encodings.

derleth · on Feb 6, 2012

No, they are not.

olavk · on Feb 8, 2012

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html considers ISO-8859-n character encodings:

"Commonly used character encodings on the Web include ISO-8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1"; usable for most Western European languages), ISO-8859-5 ..."

guard-of-terra · on Feb 10, 2012

ISO-8859-5 has NEVER been a common encoding on the Web.

KOI8-R was, then Windows-1251. Now it's often UTF-8.

derleth · on Feb 11, 2012

But Latin-1 is not a Unicode encoding.