Re: locale name standard
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> [please cc me, as indicated in headers]
> The optional codeset fragment is a character set or encoding
> identifier. Currently defined values are ISO8859-1, ISO8859-2 [more
> here]. Variant spellings like iso-8859-1, while accepted by some
> applications for compatibility, are deprecated. The default codeset
> is [what?]
The default codeset must be a locale-defined one, so that defaults make
sense.
Also, I'd say that character sets and encodings that have a "Preferred MIME
name" entry at the IANA tables MUST be recognized by that name (recognizing
additional aliases is a good idea, though).
See: http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
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