Kaixo!
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:29:44PM +0200, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote:
>> The case sensitivness is not a real problem, the lack of standardization is.
>
> Charmap names are standardized with ISO/IEC 15897.
But not to unique names it seems. It doesn't help much to know that
iso-8859-1 is standardized to
ISO-8859-1 ISO-IR-100 ISO_8859-1:1987 ISO_8859-1 LATIN1 L1 IBM819 CP819
There are still 7 too much.
There are also too much charsets that seem either never having been
in real use, or having been abandoned since long; and on the other hand
there are lacking various widely used encodings (like koi8-u).
So it's not actually a very useful standard as it is for the purpose
of standardizing unix locale naming.
> And a number of them are
> registered with ISO/IEC 15897, as recorded in
> http://www.dkuug.dk/cultreg/registrations/charmaps
it just looks like an arbitrary list of possible charset encodings.
Is there any recomendation on preferable ones per locale or preferable
names over other names for a same charset? That is what is actually needed,
the list of existing charset encodings can be easily build from a variety
of places. The list of useful encodings, and the names that should be
used to refer them, that is the missing piece.
> Kind regards
> Keld
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