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Re: Windows Code Pages 932, 936, 949 and 950
But of course windows-936 is already registered, as an alias of gbk.
E.
On 11/2/06, Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com> wrote:
> It turns out that MSIE does not support the following charset names:
>
> windows-932
> windows-936
> windows-949
> windows-950
>
> Of course, MSIE does support those code pages, but the most commonly
> used names for those code pages in MSIE are shift_jis, gb2312, euc-kr
> and big5, respectively.
>
> If we are emphatic about cp1252 not being an alias for windows-1252
> for interoperability reasons, then for the same reasons, we should not
> register windows-932, windows-936, windows-949 and windows-950.
>
> (Windows-874 is supported by MSIE, so it will probably be OK to
> register this one.)
>
> Erik
>