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RE: Never too late to fix a problem! (charset-fixes)
Hello Michelle, Harald,
Many thanks for your quick answers.
Currently, the entries look like
Name: ISO_8859-6-E [RFC1556,IANA]
MIBenum: 81
Source: RFC-1556
Alias: csISO88596E
I think Harald is proposing to change that to
Name: ISO-8859-6-E [RFC1556,IANA]
MIBenum: 81
Source: RFC-1556
Alias: csISO88596E
i.e. just changing the _ to a - in the Name. Given that these
entries have been around in the present form for a long time, I would
prefer to add the correct label as an alias, and keep the current Name,
as follows:
Name: ISO_8859-6-E [RFC1556,IANA]
MIBenum: 81
Source: RFC-1556
Alias: csISO88596E
Alias: ISO-8859-6-E (preferred MIME name)
The other three entries then would look as follows:
Name: ISO_8859-6-I [RFC1556,IANA]
MIBenum: 82
Source: RFC-1556
Alias: csISO88596I
Alias: ISO-8859-6-I (preferred MIME name)
Name: ISO_8859-8-E [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
MIBenum: 84
Source: RFC-1556
Alias: csISO88598E
Alias: ISO-8859-8-E (preferred MIME name)
Name: ISO_8859-8-I [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
MIBenum: 85
Source: RFC-1556
Alias: csISO88598I
Alias: ISO-8859-8-I (preferred MIME name)
Regards, Martin.
At 00:12 01/06/17 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>--On 16. juni 2001 08:02 -0700 IANA <iana@icann.org> wrote:
>
>>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:
>
>No - dash in the wrong place.
>>
>>Name: ISO_8859-6-E [RFC1556,IANA]
>
>The NAME needs to change to ISO-8859-6-E to be consistent with the RFC.
>The error was done when transcribing the names from RFC 1556 to the IANA
>registry.
>
>>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)
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