RE: shift_jis / windows-31J

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

Problem is that there are 4+ implementations of shift_jis in "common" use, and none of them are likely to change, since it'd break their customers. :(

So I don't see a perfect solution here.  HTML5 is fairly clear about browser behavior, but in other environments, I think the best we can do is point to the variants and allow the clients to decide which version they'd like to use.

-Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne van Kesteren [mailto:annevk@opera.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:58 AM
To: Shawn Steele
Cc: NARUSE, Yui; ietf-charsets@mail.apps.ietf.org
Subject: Re: shift_jis / windows-31J

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:30:26 +0100, Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Does the updated version sent Friday work for you?
>
> I think completely pointing shift_jis to the windows 932 behavior would  
> maybe break others, but I don't know for sure.

I do not think the way that was phrased will ever give us good  
interoperability or will give a clue to new web browsers what they need to  
implement.

Though maybe to address that a separate registry is needed just for web  
browsers -- as I suggested in the past -- to avoid clashing with others  
who do not wish to update their code to match.


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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/