Re: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 2

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

Hello Keld,

I haven't found the string "1252" in RFC 1345
(e.g. at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1345.txt), nor in the IANA
registration page at http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets.
Can you please tell us what you are talking about?

Regards,    Martin.

At 15:32 06/10/28, Keld J$B�S(Bn Simonsen wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:09:33PM -0700, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, Microsoft Internet Explorer does not support the
>> name cp1252. I think we should either remove it from the registration,
>> or change it to say something like "The cp1252 name is sometimes used
>> in other contexts for this charset, but it is not an alias for general
>> Internet use."
>
>I would recommend that the clause on cp1252 is removed, as cp1252 is
>already a registered name in another registration, namely that from rfc
>1345.
>
>Best regards
>keld
>
>> Erik
>> 
>> On 10/25/06, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
>> >This looks good to me, except for two points:
>> >
>> >- I'd like to get a word from Mike to make sure that he/Microsoft
>> >  is fine with this.
>> >- There is a confusion about aliases. It says "aliases: None",
>> >  but then later says "Another name that is sometimes used for
>> >  this charset is cp1252.". I think it is important to make it
>> >  clear that this is not an alias.
>> >
>> >Reagards,     Martin.
>> >
>> >
>> >At 01:26 06/10/25, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>> >>Based on all the feedback on the windows-1252 update, here is draft no. 2.
>> >>
>> >>Erik
>> >>
>> >>---------------------------
>> >>
>> >>Charset name: windows-1252
>> >>
>> >>Charset aliases: (None)
>> >>
>> >>Suitability for use in MIME text:
>> >>
>> >>Yes, windows-1252 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
>> >>Content-Type. Note that windows-1252 is an 8-bit charset. Care should
>> >>be taken to choose the appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.
>> >>
>> >>Published specification(s):
>> >>
>> >>1) Dr. International "Developing International Software, Second Edition",
>> >>Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1583-7, 2003, p. 743-747
>> >>
>> >>2) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.htm
>> >>
>> >>ISO 10646 equivalency table:
>> >>
>> >>http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
>> >>
>> >>Additional information:
>> >>
>> >>This is an update of an existing registration of this charset. This
>> >>charset name is in use.
>> >>
>> >>Older versions of this charset have been registered as
>> >>ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.0-Latin-1 and ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1.
>> >>
>> >>Another name that is sometimes used for this charset is cp1252.
>> >>
>> >>The graphic (non-control) characters of Windows-1252 are a superset of
>> >>the graphic characters of the ISO-8859-1 charset. See the range 80 to
>> >>9F (hex).
>> >>
>> >>Microsoft has also published the table used with the "best fit"
>> >>feature in their APIs:
>> >>
>> 
>>>http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit1252.txt
>> 
>>>http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/readme.txt
>> >>
>> >>Person & email address to contact for further information:
>> >>
>> >>Mike Ksar
>> >>Email: mikeksar@microsoft.com
>> >>
>> >>Microsoft Corporation
>> >>One Microsoft Way,
>> >>Redmond, WA 98052
>> >>U.S.A.
>> >>
>> >>Intended usage: COMMON
>> >
>> >
>> >#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
>> >#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
>> >
>> >


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp