Encode hackers,

   I blindly generated roman8.ucm out of roman8.enc, not knowing what it 
is.  I am now convinced this is hp-roman8 but I am not 100% sure yet.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
> Name: hp-roman8                                  [HP-PCL5,RFC1345,KXS2]
> MIBenum: 2004
> Source: LaserJet IIP Printer User's Manual,
>         HP part no 33471-90901, Hewlet-Packard, June 1989.
> Alias: roman8
> Alias: r8
> Alias: csHPRoman8

lib/Encode/Alias.pm also comments
> # TODO: HP-UX '8' encodings arabic8 greek8 hebrew8 kana8 thai8 turkish8
> # TODO: HP-UX '15' encodings japanese15 korean15 roi15
> # TODO: Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111 (useful?)
> # TODO: Armenian encoding ARMSCII-8
> # TODO: Hebrew encoding ISO-8859-8-1
> # TODO: Thai encoding TCVN
> # TODO: Korean encoding Johab
> # TODO: Vietnamese encodings VPS
> # TODO: Mac Asian+African encodings: Arabic Armenian Bengali Burmese
> #       ChineseSimp ChineseTrad Devanagari Ethiopic ExtArabic
> #       Farsi Georgian Gujarati Gurmukhi Hebrew Japanese
> #       Kannada Khmer Korean Laotian Malayalam Mongolian
> #       Oriya Sinhalese Symbol Tamil Telugu Tibetan Vietnamese

   It seems they are just a matter of tables but is there good source of 
such on web?  I've already checked IBM's ICU distributions, HP web pages 
and Inside Macintosh....

Dan the Encode Maintainer

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