On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Peter Occil <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is the replacement encoding called "replacement" and not "x-replacement"? > > As far as I can tell there is no character set or alias called "replacement" > in the IANA character > sets list, so accordingly, the replacement encoding should begin with "x-", > as in > "x-user-defined", also in the Encoding standard.
Well 1) IANA is no longer relevant for encodings and 2) "x-user-defined" was already named that way. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
