Re: windows-874

[Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>]

The procedure for registering a charset is documented here:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2978.txt

One of the required pieces of info is:

Person & email address to contact for further information

I'm guessing that that wouldn't be you. Microsoft should really register 
this themselves, especially if they're already using it on the Internet. 
However, I did notice that when they sent something related to the other 
windows-* charsets to this list, they appeared to feel that they weren't 
getting much response. I don't know whether that was due to the 
unavailability of a stable, openly-available spec. (But UTF-8 isn't 
stable either -- it grows with Unicode.)

The name "windows-874" appears to be used in Java too. See the ICU list:

http://dev.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/icu/source/data/mappings/convrtrs.txt?rev=1.169&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Erik

peter green wrote:
> this is the only thai charset that outlook 2000 supports for sending mail in
> and so is almost certainly in wide use already online. furthermore all the
> other windows code pages are already registered.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/874.mspx
> 
> p.s. i am not in any way affiliated with microsoft nor do i speak thai. I
> just noticed a strange ommision from the list of registered character sets.
> 
> p.p.s please cc any replies to me as i am not on the ietf-charsets list.
> 
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