Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> writes:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:54:05AM -0500, Kingpin wrote:
The insidious problem with with any given encoding tranforming system is
the non-standardisation of the encoding names.
I18N::Charset was created as a step toward solving that problem...
As in: "Let's create yet another slightly incompatible standard"? :-)
(I haven't looked at I18N::Chraset, true, but I can't see how yet
another piece of software could solve the basic problem that we all
need to stick to some common naming of character encodins)
I am planning on using primary name as MIME prefered names from RFC1345,
all lower case. (IANA names in RFC1345 will be aliases.)
With the addition of certain X11R6 (as in XFree86 4.0) names used
for font encodings. Aligning with the latter means names will
be (say) iso8859-15 not iso-8859-1 or iso_8859-1.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
