RE: Never too late to fix a problem! (charset-fixes)

[IANA <iana@icann.org>]

Dear Martin,

Apologies that this was never taken care of.  Olle's request came
through before I came on board.

Harald, is any approval required to make these changes?

Am I correct in understanding that the charset file should appear as
follows:

Name: ISO_8859-6-E                                       [RFC1556,IANA]
MIBenum: 81
Source: RFC1556
Alias: csISO88596E

Name: ISO_8859-6-I                                       [RFC1556,IANA]
MIBenum: 82
Source: RFC1556
Alias: csISO88596I

Name: ISO_8859-8-E                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
MIBenum: 84
Source: RFC1556
Alias: csISO88598E

Name: ISO_8859-8-I                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
MIBenum: 85
Source: RFC1556
Alias: csISO88598I


:    Examples of new character sets for bi-directionality support:
:
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO_8859-6-e
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO_8859-6-i
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO_8859-8-e
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO_8859-8-i
:
:    The "i" suffix refers to implicit mode and the "e" suffix refers to
:    explicit mode.

Please confirm that this is correct.

Thanks,

Michelle Schipper
IANA



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:15 AM
To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Cc: iana@iana.org; Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Subject: Never too late to fix a problem!


Having a look at the charset registry
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets),
I just rediscovered the following error, already
reported by Olle Jarnefors in 1996!
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-charsets/1996JulDec/0000.html

What is the right way to fix such problems once and for all?

Regards,   Martin.


Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 18:23:30 +0200
From: Olle Jarnefors <ojarnef@admin.kth.se> Subject: Errors in charset
registrations for Arabic and Hebrew
To: iana@isi.edu
Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, ilan-h@taunivm.tau.ac.il,
Message-id: <9607081623.AA19350@mercutio.admin.kth.se>  There are four
small but significant errors in the
registrations of four charset values for Arabic and
Hebrew character sets defined in RFC 1556.
<ftp:ftp.is.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets> includes the
registrations:
 > Name: ISO_8859-6-E                                       [RFC1556,IANA]
 > MIBenum: 81
 > Source: RFC-1556
 > Alias: csISO88596E
 > > Name: ISO_8859-6-I                                       [RFC1556,IANA]
 > MIBenum: 82
 > Source: RFC-1556
 > Alias: csISO88596I
 > Name: ISO_8859-8-E                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
 > MIBenum: 84
 > Source: RFC-1556
 > Alias: csISO88598E
 > > Name: ISO_8859-8-I
[RFC1556,Nussbacher]
 > MIBenum: 85
 > Source: RFC-1556
 > Alias: csISO88598I
RFC 1556, however, uses "-", not "_", after "ISO" in the
charset values:
:    Examples of new character sets for bi-directionality support:
:
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-6-e
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-6-i
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-e
:             Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-i
:
:    The "i" suffix refers to implicit mode and the "e" suffix refers to
:    explicit mode.
Best regards
/Olle
--
Olle Jarnefors, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
<ojarnef@admin.kth.se>  --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)