Re: Problems (and non-problems) in charset registry (was: Re:Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer)

[Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com>]

On Sat September 9 2006 09:39, Ned Freed wrote:

> I agree. I also think that there's a bunch of low-hanging fruit here: Many (but
> certainly not all) of the registry problems can be fixed without a huge
> investment of time and effort.
> 
> Once the obvious stuff is addressed we can discuss how far we want to go,
> especially in regards to versioning, variant tagging, and so on. But let's
> please not get bogged down in the hard stuff before dealing with the easy
> stuff.

A possibly good starting point would be the list of issues brought up the
last time somebody offered to get problems fixed; the thread on this mailing
list beginning with http://mail.apps.ietf.org/ietf/charsets/msg01495.html

One would certainly hope that some of those issues (e.g. removing silly
"Alias: None" lines[*], assigning cs* aliases where missing) could be (or
could have been) done without huge effort.  Paul's message looked promising
(Apps AD support, etc.), yet most of the problems noted remain in the
registry some 21 months later...

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* here follows a one-liner fix for the silly lines:
grep -v "^Alias.*: *None" <character-sets >foo && mv -f foo character-sets