Re: svn:charset

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote:

> "Kevin Grover" <kevin_at_kevingrover.net> writes:
> > From what little I found while looking around, charmap is taken to
> > refer to the Microsoft utility for picking characters (that's what
> > Wikipedia brings up, and just that). It seems that 'encoding'
> > (meaning character encoding) or 'charset' would indeed be the most
> > commonly used terms.
>
> I'm not sure why you dragged charmap into this - it was never an
> option.
>
> Character sets and encodings are not the same thing, but "charset" has
> historically been used to mean a particular encoding of a particular
> character set.
>

Sorry. I must have been too tired when I was reading through the messages.

- Kevin
Received on 2008-07-15 01:48:41 CEST