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userbinator on Oct 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A small but complete JavaScript engine

true ISO-8859-1 encoding, not Windows-1252

AFAIK, 8859-1 is a subset of 1252.

zzo38computer on Oct 25, 2020 [–]

Actually, true ISO-8859-1 would convert into UTF-16 simply by setting the high octet to zero.

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