Keld wrote on 2001-05-15 21:46 UTC:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:21:02PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > We could put together a proper list (in the format required by ISO 2375)
> > and then ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] to register them as a "coding
> > system different from that of ISO 2022, with standard return".
> >
> > We'd just need a sponsoring national standards body sponsoring the
> > proposal. Keld?
>
> We have talked about it before, in SC2/WG3. And decided to do it.
Excellent! So let's actually do it! Should have already happened a long
time ago. What is a character set registry worth with many of the most
widely used ones missing.
> I would be glad to take on the formal things
> to initiate it. There may be some problems with ownership of
> the codepages, however.
What problems? Real or imaginary?
Relevant contact persons:
For the Microsoft code pages (for both "Windows" and "OEM", nobody uses
the older IBM mapping tables):
Chris Wendt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K.D. Chang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For KOI8-R:
Andrew A. Chernov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For the sponsoring ISO member body (Dansk Standard):
Keld J�rn Simonsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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