Re: Registration of some code pages

[Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:53:32 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>  
wrote:
> These days we have legacy encodings primarily to support legacy systems
> and legacy content; where systems recognize encodings by some identifier
> and that identifier means different things for different systems, then
> there may be little interest in convergence. Web browsers generally con-
> sume the same content and are supposed to be interchangable, so there is
> considerable interest and willingness to converge, but that is not the
> case in systems where generator and consumer are more tightly coupled,
> slowly upgrading to some Unicode encoding is often a better option for
> such systems than fiddling with intricate legacy encoding details.

This is why I proposed having a separate registry for the web. For web  
browsers if you wish.


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Anne van Kesteren
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