Bug#97053: marked as done (IANA registered character set names are not recognized)
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From: Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@delfi.lt>
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Subject: IANA registered character set names are not recognized
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Package: locales
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IANA registered character sets `windows-1250' to `windows-1258' are not
recognized by glibc. Instead glibc uses unregistered `cp1250' to
`cp1258' which, for example, cannot be used in Internet mail (according
to RFC 2046).
See http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets.
Suggestion: add appropriate `% alias WINDOWS-125x' lines to
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/CP125*
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mg 2.2.19 #1 Tue Apr 17 01:04:24 EET 2001 i686
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From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>
To: Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@delfi.lt>, 97053-done@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: Re: Bug#97053: IANA registered character set names are not recognized
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At Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:05:46 +0200,
Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:29:41PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > > IANA registered character sets `windows-1250' to `windows-1258' are not
> > > recognized by glibc. Instead glibc uses unregistered `cp1250' to
> > > `cp1258' which, for example, cannot be used in Internet mail (according
> > > to RFC 2046).
> > >
> > > See http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets.
> >
> > Look at /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules .
> > gconv (iconv(3)) uses this alias database, so 'windows-125x'
> > is equal to 'cp125x'.
> >
> > But the problem is /etc/locale.gen . It uses cp125x.
> > I want to know people is really willing to use 'windows-125x'
> > instead of 'cp125x'. We do not change them without _real_
> > 'cp125x' user requests. IANA is not perfect.
> > Do you know the real demand for changing it?
>
> I think the original problem was that Mutt (which uses glibc's iconv for
> charset conversion) did not recognize windows-125x variants without
> specific workarounds (charset-hook lines in /etc/muttrc). My request
> was that iconv (and maybe other parts of glibc that use charset names)
> would recognize windows-125x names as aliases to cp125x.
>
> Since I can now see WINDOWS-125x in iconv -l output, I think this
> problem is solved.
Thank you for your information, we can say it has been solved.
> I cannot say anything about locale names. I am not a cp125x locale user
> -- lt_LT uses ISO-8859-13.
As you said, original problem is related with gconv,
not locale name issue, which is only my suspicion.
I close this bug.
-- gotom
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