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>> I agree that a
separator like "--" might be best. I’m concerned about the addition of another layer of names that’s
incompatible with the current set of names. The concept of adding a variation
would require changes to all client parsers, and that just isn’t a realistic
expectation. So the net result would be that a few applications emitting
variations would create data unrecognizable by the majority of current
software. If there was to be such a huge breaking change in the naming of
code pages, the effort in updating the software and legacy data sets would be
much better used to migrate to Unicode than to migrate to a different form of
the existing code pages. My thinking is that for the registrations for code pages like
936, it would probably be worth stating that variations of the official code
page exist and cause different interpretations on some systems. - Shawn |