Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote on 2002-03-01 03:04 UTC: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:51:45PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >> > I think we should aim at the very last to keep up with >> > a Certain Language: >> > >> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html >> >> Based on a quick check, we are missing the following compared >> with the J2SE 1.4 list: > >Not all, but many of the charsets on this list are bogus or at least >hardly ever needed. They exist only on paper in some obscure IBM >document. Please don't start an I-have-more-encodings-than-you-do war. >There are less than ~30 encodings commonly used today.
I would appreciate a list of them. > >If an encoding is neither mentioned in > > http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ > >or in the MIME registry That one has been _my_ particular "must have" list. >or in case it has Han characters in > > http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.txt > >then chances are good that nobody actually needs it in a standard >library. Lack of showing up in these registries means that there isn't a >real-world user community who cares about that encoding. > >Too long lists of encodings just confuse users, unless each encoding >comes with an abstract that clarifies where this conversion table came >from and how it differs from similar ones. > >Lack of a lengthy list of bogous encodings should not be a reason for >delaying the release of 5.8, imho ... > >Amazingly, Unicode has triggered a strange interest in lots of long >forgotten an never used encodings, because only now, since conversion >between everything becomes technically possible, people all of a sudden >develop strong hunter-and-gatherer instincts to find ever more and more >Unicode conversion tables. Just the opposite of what Unicode was about, >isn't it? > >Markus -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
