Re: ISO 8859 -8:1999

[Mark Davis <mark.davis@us.ibm.com>]

Supersets will still cause data corruption problems. See
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr22/, especially Section 1.2.1

Mark
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                    Jonathan                                                                                        
                    Rosenne              To:     ietf-charsets@iana.org                                             
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                    o.il>                Subject:     ISO 8859 -8:1999                                              
                                                                                                                    
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I propose to register ISO_8859-8:1999 as an alias to ISO_8859-8:1988.

Reference:
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28
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Justification: ISO_8859-8:1999 is a superset of ISO_8859-8:1988. Valid
ISO_8859-8:1988 data will still be valid under ISO_8859-8:1999. The new
characters were reserved in ISO_8859-8:1988. Registering ISO_8859-8:1999
as a separate character set would cause too much unnecessary confusion.

Regards,

Jony Rosenne