Unicode chr(150) en dash

[John Machin]

hdante wrote:

> 
>  The character code in question (which is present in the page), 150,
> doesn't exist in ISO-8859-1.

Are you sure?  Consider (re-)reading all of the Wikipedia article.

150 aka \x96 doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) is a 
superset of ISO 8859-1 (one hyphen) and adds the not-very-useful-AFAICT 
control codes \x80 to \x9F.

> See
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 (the entry for 150 is
> blank)

You must have been looking at the table of the "lite" ISO 8859-1 (one 
hyphen). Reading further you will see \x96 described as SPA or "Start of 
Guarded Area". Then there is the ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) table, 
including \x96.

HTH,
John