Encode hackers,
I blindly generated roman8.ucm out of roman8.enc, not knowing what it
is. I am now convinced this is hp-roman8 but I am not 100% sure yet.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
Name: hp-roman8 [HP-PCL5,RFC1345,KXS2]
MIBenum: 2004
Source: LaserJet IIP Printer User's Manual,
HP part no 33471-90901, Hewlet-Packard, June 1989.
Alias: roman8
Alias: r8
Alias: csHPRoman8
lib/Encode/Alias.pm also comments
# TODO: HP-UX '8' encodings arabic8 greek8 hebrew8 kana8 thai8 turkish8
# TODO: HP-UX '15' encodings japanese15 korean15 roi15
# TODO: Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111 (useful?)
# TODO: Armenian encoding ARMSCII-8
# TODO: Hebrew encoding ISO-8859-8-1
# TODO: Thai encoding TCVN
# TODO: Korean encoding Johab
# TODO: Vietnamese encodings VPS
# TODO: Mac Asian+African encodings: Arabic Armenian Bengali Burmese
# ChineseSimp ChineseTrad Devanagari Ethiopic ExtArabic
# Farsi Georgian Gujarati Gurmukhi Hebrew Japanese
# Kannada Khmer Korean Laotian Malayalam Mongolian
# Oriya Sinhalese Symbol Tamil Telugu Tibetan Vietnamese
It seems they are just a matter of tables but is there good source of
such on web? I've already checked IBM's ICU distributions, HP web pages
and Inside Macintosh....
Dan the Encode Maintainer
