Re: Registration of new charset iso-8859-14

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>]

It is not madness, this is what the aliases section is for,
to record known aliases for the charset. If you only want to
deal with one name, then use the charset name.

Keld

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:49:48PM +0000, Misha Wolf wrote:
> That's exactly why now is the time to say: Enough. Stop this madness.
> 
> Misha
> 
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> 
> > It is in the style that has been done for all the other iso-8859
> > series of standards. So yu need to do it anyway for everything
> > else.
> > 
> > Keld
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:38:52AM -0700, Erik van der Poel wrote:
> > > I also object to the aliases.
> > > 
> > > Erik
> > > 
> > > > I strongly object to the large number of aliases listed below and
> > > > propose that every alias request should document established usage.
> > > > This sort of nonsense requires browser etc vendors to build ever-
> > > > larger tables of rubbish into their products.  Is it too late to
> > > > stop this registration?
> > > > 
> > > > > >Charset name: iso-8859-14
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Charset aliases:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >      &alias iso-ir-199
> > > > > >      &alias ISO_8859-14:1998
> > > > > >      &alias ISO_8859-14
> > > > > >      &alias latin8
> > > > > >      &alias iso-celtic
> > > > > >      &alias l8
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