Re: Mistake in Alias in charset registry - bad alias name

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

> The following entry in the charset registry has an incorrect alias
> (both the March and November versions).

Wrong.

> See ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
> 
> 
> Name: ISO-10646-Unicode-Latin1
> MIBenum: 1003
> Source: ISO Latin-1 subset of Unicode. Basic Latin and Latin-1 
>          Supplement  = collections 1 and 2.  See ISO 10646, 
>          Appendix A.  See RFC 1815.
> Alias: csUnicodeLatin1
> Alias: ISO-10646
> 
> 
> The Alias should definitely NOT be 'ISO-10646, since this charset is
> the Latin1 subset of ISO 10646, not ISO 10646 itself.

Read RFC 1815.

> Source: ISO Latin-1 subset of Unicode. Basic Latin and Latin-1 
>          Supplement  = collections 1 and 2.  See ISO 10646, 
>          Appendix A.  See RFC 1815.
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Of course, considering the poor interoperability of ISO 10646
that the interoperability with pure ASCII only is assurred,
ISO-10646 which covers all the Latin 1 characters is a little
too wide.

But, it is a lot better than saying ISO-10646 covers all the
possible ISO 10646 characters, which is not well defined at all.

						Masataka Ohta