Hello all,

After consulting central asian computer users, I found out that the Windows
codepages they use as standard are, as a matter of fact, modified versions
of "real" (the ones that most of us know as) standard codepages.

Two cases known so far:
The Windows turkish codepage (cp1254) isn't "turkic enough" to handle other
latin-alphabet based turkic languages.
Windows 9x in Azerbaijan uses a modified version, which they call "cp1254e".
The Windows cyrillic codepage (cp1251) covers only slavic languages, not the
cyrillic-alphabet based turkic ones.
Windows 9x in Kazakhstan uses a modified version, which they call "cp1251k".

Obviously, we cannot define the same CCSID (Coded Character Set IDentifier,
a.k.a. CPxxxx codepage number) for two different codepages.

My proposal:

In order to preserve the standard codepages, I would like to name those
codepages  as follows:

cp1254 (Standard) ==> cp1254
cp1254e (Azeri) ==> cp2254
cp1251 (Standard) ==> cp1251
cp1251k (Kazakh) ==> cp2251

After a lot of research on the web, I've found no cp225x codepages, so it
seems that there would be no conflicts.

Henrique

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