RE: windows-874 new registration

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>]

I considered that when creating these.  Frankly I'd rather see Thai in
UTF-8 than in windows-874, so I didn't want to lead people to choose
this just because they had Thai data.

I see that many of the existing assignments don't include this
information.  In other words, I think of this as a "legacy windows
compatible code page" rather than a "Thai compatible code page"

I'll add this if others feel strongly about it, but I wanted to mention
my concerns.

- Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp] 
Sent: Tuesday 12 June 2007 18:30
To: Shawn Steele; ietf-charsets@mail.apps.ietf.org
Subject: 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.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>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/be
stfit874.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