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Bug 21752 - Investigate the need for an encoding with ç at 0x87
Summary: Investigate the need for an encoding with ç at 0x87
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Encoding (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+encodingspec
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Reported: 2013-04-19 14:50 UTC by Gordon P. Hemsley
Modified: 2013-08-23 10:58 UTC (History)
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Description Gordon P. Hemsley 2013-04-19 14:50:21 UTC 
There is at least one document on the live Web that uses an ASCII-compatible encoding that has ç at code point 0x87:

http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ll/llhb/030/llhb030.txt

(Search for "07390000" in that file to get close to the example.)

One encoding that fits this description is IBM Code Page 850, which is supported in Firefox (as IBM-850), but does not appear to be in the Encoding spec.
Comment 1 Gordon P. Hemsley 2013-04-19 15:44:41 UTC 
Another possibility is IBM Code Page 437, which does not appear to be supported in Firefox.
Comment 2 Anne 2013-08-23 10:58:55 UTC 
Since the IBM encodings were not interoperable we decided to not have them (with ibm866 as notable exception).