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A 18: 36 98-03-30 +0000, Misha Wolf a *crit :
>Why do we need the aliases?  I suggest (just):
>
>  Name: ISO-8859-15 (preferred MIME name)


[Alain] :
I thought about it too. You may be right, an alias would perhaps mislead
people less. By chance Latin 1 was part 1 of the ISO/IEC 8859 series... We
do not have this privilege with latin 9 and that might be confusing indeed.

I'm not alone to make this recommendation then but I believe it might be
better too, although some other people might prefer only "Latin 9" then as
a name... So I don't know. Is there a harm to have one alias for MIME usage?

Why were aliases created in the first place? Were there problems
encountered with those as I suspect (the more it is complex, the more it is
error-prone)?

Alain LaBonté
Québec

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[Misha] :
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>Chair, W3C I18N WG
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[Marc] :
>> Hi,
>> 	modified request per comments:
>> 	- removed alias latin0
>> 	- preferred alias in uppercase
>> 	- csISOLatin changed to 9
>> 
>> The new request will be:
>> 
>> Name: ISO-8859-15
>> Alias: ISO-8859-15 (preferred MIME name)
>> Alias: latin9
>> Alias: csISOLatin9
>> 
>> 
>> Since the ISO standard is at its final ballot stage, then I will wait until
>> final approval and resubmit it to the list at that time.  In between,
>> people can use it for software development.
>> 
>> Thanks everybody,
>> 
>> Marc. 
>> 
>> 
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