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by pdonis 2387 days ago
> the first 256 characters of Unicode are almost identical to CP1252. I'm pretty sure that's not a coincidence.

That depends on whether you consider the fact that Windows CP 1252 is almost identical to Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1), which is exactly the first 256 characters of Unicode, to be a coincidence.
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throw0101a 2386 days ago
> This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 by using displayable characters rather than control characters in the 80 to 9F (hex) range.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

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