Re: Registering a charset alias

[Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>]

Good point -- windows-932 is not supported by major browsers. However,
x-sjis is supported, and could be treated as an alias for Shift_JIS,
at least in HTML, and maybe even in other specs.

Erik

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann<derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
> * Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>I was wondering if it is possible to register a charset alias. HTML5
>>currently defines three,
>>
>>  x-sjis       windows-31J
>>  windows-932  windows-31J
>>  x-x-big5     Big5
>>
>>and it would be nice if these could instead be in the official registry.
>>
>>The reason HTML5 has these is that user agents have long implemented
>>these for compatibility with Web sites.
>
> As far as I can tell, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera do not
> support the label "windows-932". The registered alias csWindows31J
> is supported by Internet Explorer and Opera but not Firefox, while
> the label Windows-31J is supported by Opera and Firefox but not IE.
>
> If you also consider http://www.w3.org/Submission/japanese-xml/ I'd
> say little good can come from extending the registry for the first
> two of your cases.
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