Re: [Sab] encodings - opinions?

[Peter Flynn]

At Wednesday, 31 January 2001, you wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:54:39PM +0100, Tom Kaiser wrote:
>[snip] 
>> Would anyone greatly miss any encoding which does NOT appear in 
the list 
>> below? (This is the list of encodings covered by XML::Encoding).
>>   Big 5, ISO-8859-2 to ISO-8859-9, x-euc-jp, x-euc-kr, x-sjis 
>> (Shift_JIS), windows-1250
>>   (plus the built-in ISO-8859-1, US_ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16)
>> 
>Don't take me wrong, but that would be a large step back for sablotron.
>Limiting to such a small subset of encodings, knowing possibilities 
of iconv
>would make some sablotron users cry. 

8859-2 is pretty essential as it covers rather a lot of characters 
needed for 
European language support which are not in 8859-1.

///Peter