Re: MIBenum value for ISO-10646-J-1?

[Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>]

Welcome to a dormant forum! :-)

Dieter Köhler <service@philo.de> already reported the missing MIBenum on this list on 2002-04-16. 
There are also charset names in the list that are longer than the stated maximum of 40, and there 
are names that refer to character repertoires rather than charsets. Etc.

markus
(not affiliated with IANA)

PS: There is no requirement for aliases. In fact, aliases are discouraged. The cs* alias is always 
implicitly there, see the registration RFC.
RFC 1815 says the encoding is UCS-2BE, with a restricted repertoire. Therefore, it's not suitable 
for MIME text/*. Don't follow any advice in RFC 1815...

Bruce Lilly wrote:

> The current IANA character-sets registry has the following information
> for ISO-10646-J-1:
> 
> Name: ISO-10646-J-1
> Source: ISO 10646 Japanese, see RFC 1815.
> 
> No MIBenum, no aliases (cs* or otherwise), no indication of whether
> or not the charset is suitable for MIME text/plain, and if so what the
> preferred MIME name is), etc. (the sort of information provided for
> other charsets in the registry).
> 
> Is that some sort of error in the IANA registry, and what information
> should be be there?

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