On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:08:23 +0200, Øistein E. Andersen <li...@coq.no> wrote: > Le 9 juin 09 à 10h55, Anne van Kesteren écrivit : >> So should HTML5 mention that Windows-932 maps to Windows-31J? (It does >> not appear in the IANA registry.) > > That is an interesting question. My (apparently wrong) understanding was > that the table was merely supposed to provide mappings between > encodings,
It is about adding aliases. If the alias added is also a distinct encoding conformance checkers are supposed to report on the differences. Personally I would be happy with making the aliases normative everywhere but I suspect that is not going to fly. E.g. letting US-ASCII always map to Windows-1252 would probably be highly controversial. > since such mappings are inappropriate in non-HTML contexts > and cannot be added to the IANA registry. I would prefer them being added to the IANA registry. > It might be to useful to > include a set of MIME charset strings which cannot be or have not yet > been registered (e.g., x-x-big5, x-sjis, windows-932) as well as > information on how CJK character sets are implemented in practice, both > of which seem to be necessary for compatibility. Such information should definitely be included, yes. > Such information does not fit comfortably in the current table, though. Since you seem to have studied this subject a lot, do you keep more detailed information somewhere including tests, findings, tables, etc? It would be very cool to have that. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
