Re: shift_jis / windows-31J

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

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:26:15 +0100, Shawn Steele  
<Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I certainly agree that these are legacy encodings, however for that  
> exact reason it's nearly impossible to "fix" the behavioral  
> discrepencies between our products and the standards definitions because  
> actually changing the encoding, or the encoding that the name points to  
> would break millions of documents for millions of users.

Is that really true? shift_jis means "windows-31J" on Windows. For web  
browsers it means that. "windows-31J" is also a superset, no? So what  
would break?


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