Re: Proposal for additional Aliases to IANA registry of character sets

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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Chris Newman wrote:
> begin quotation by Markus Scherer on 2002/8/6 8:07 -0700:
> > Chris Newman wrote:
> >> However, I do object to the following two aliases:
> >>> ISO_8859-1:1987   IBM819                  IBM-819
> >>> ANSI_X3.4-1968    IBM367                  IBM-367
> >
[...]
> [ISO-8859-{1..10,6-E,6-I,8-E,8-I}, US-ASCII, UTF-8,
>  KOI8-{R,U}, ISO-2022-{KR,JP,CN}, EUC-KR, CN-GB, CN-Big5,
>  HZ-GB-2312, VISCII, VIQR, GB2312, Big5, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS]
> 
> I will object to the addition of aliases to any of these.

I agree 100% (and I would also add the other UTFs).

Mark Davis wrote:
> For better or worse, the IANA registry is used as a central repository
> of names for character set mappings. In particular, the XML Standard
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) is driving the registration of many
> encodings: [...]

Proliferation of unnecessary aliases is as bad for XML as it is in
other contexts.

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