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Re: windows-874 new registration
Hello Shawn,
All your registration/update requests seem to be in very good form.
But when looking at them again, especially at the one below, I found
that one piece of information was crucially missing: What are the
scripts/languages covered by these codepages. For the 12xx series,
there is at least the iso-8859 equivalent, but many people may not
be familiar with all its parts. So a word or two, e.g. for the case
below "Latin/Thai", might really help.
Regards, Martin.
At 04:29 07/06/13, Shawn Steele wrote:
>Windows-874 is in use by several groups, but it hasn't been registered yet,
>so I'd like to submit it for review: The form is similar to the 1252
>request we discussed last year.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Charset name: windows-874
>
>Charset aliases: (None)
>
>Suitability for use in MIME text:
>
> Yes, windows-874 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
> Content-Type. Note that windows-874 is an 8-bit charset. Care should
> be taken to choose an appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.
>
>Published specification(s):
>
> 1) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/874.htm
>
>ISO 10646 equivalency table:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP874.TXT
>
>Additional information:
>
> UTF-8 is preferred to windows-874 when permissible.
>
> Although not authoritative, the following references may also be of
> interest:
>
> Printed mapping table:
> Dr. International "Developing International Software, Second Edition",
> Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1583-7, 2003, p. 779-782
>
> Microsoft windows extended "best fit" behavior:
>
>http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit874.txt
>
> This is a request for a new registration of this charset. This
> charset name is in use.
>
> This charset is also known as Windows Code Page 874, DOS-874,
> or cp874 for short; these are NOT aliases.
>
>Person & email address to contact for further information:
>
> Shawn Steele
> Email: Shawn.Steele@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