On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:28:07PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: > Microsoft products use 'ks_c_5601-1987' as an encoding name/MIME > charset/character set encoding scheme. That's a very strange use > of KS C 5601-1987. Because, what they mean by 'ks_c_5601-1987' > is actually CP949/Unified Hangul Code(UHC)/X-Windows-949, > an upward compatible proprieatary extension of EUC-KR.
Just a quite note: exactly the same thing has happened with Microsoft's use of 'gb2312' to mean 'gbk', and 'big5' to mean 'cp950'. In Encode.pm, I've been carefully avoiding this misbehaviour; it has been fortunate that 'ks_c_5601_1987' has a distinct name from 'ksc5601'. :-) /Autrijus/
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