Hi Dan, > Well, unless I hear requests from Thai native users, I'll abstain since > TIS620 did not exist in http://www.unicode.org/Public/. So far as I > see ISO-8859-11 suffices. > > But once again I am only human so correct me if I am wrong. > > Dan the Man with Too Many Encodings to Support; Too Many Typos Generated
The only character set of the ISO-8859 family that has not (yet?) been assigned by IANA as a valid name or alias is ISO-8859-11. According to http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, currently only "TIS-620" is a valid name for Thai. It's unique ID number (MIBenum) is 2259. IMO, it would be nice if Perl's Encode module would at least recognize all IANA approved names. I am also wondering why Encode's default encoding names sometimes differ from IANA's recommended names - eg. Perl's "shiftjis" vs. IANA's "shift_jis" (lowercased from original "Shift_JIS", since all the names are case insensitive). Wouldn't it be easier to use standardized names whenever possible? -- rob.
