Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer

[Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>]

Hello Mark,

We should definitely start to look at such issues once we have
processed the backlog of requests and have cleaned up some of
the garbage in the current registry.

On the side, I think it would be great if
<http://icu.sourceforge.net/charts/charset/roundtripIndex.html>http://icu.sourceforge.net/charts/charset/roundtripIndex.html
could be split up into some smaller pages. It's really huge.

Regards,    Martin.

At 00:22 06/10/03, Mark Davis wrote:
>I'd suggest taking a look at the ICU charset data. This was gathered by calling APIs on different platforms, instead of going by the documentation, which was often false.
>
><http://icu.sourceforge.net/charts/charset/>http://icu.sourceforge.net/charts/charset/
>http://icu.sourceforge.net/charts/charset/roundtripIndex.html
>
>The other thing that needs to be done is establish criteria for identity. If two mappings are identical except that one adds an additional mapping from bytes to Unicode, which gets registered? Both? The subset? The superset? 
>
>There are literally hundreds of such cases, so without clarity it doesn't help to propose registrations.
>
>Mark



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