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