Re: Request for correction of charset registry

I approve of this change.

              Harald


At 17:54 20/12/2000 +0900, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>Dear IANA,
>
>This is a request for a correction to the 'charset' registry you
>maintain at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets.
>
>Please add
>
>Alias: ISO-8859-8-e (preferred MIME name)
>
>to the entry MIBenum 84, and please add
>
>Alias: ISO-8859-8-i (preferred MIME name)
>
>to the entry MIBenum 85.
>
>http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1556.txt, which is given as the source for
>these entries, actually contains the above labels, but not the labels
>currently listed in the charset registry.
>
>Also, these labels are explicitly mentioned in the HTML 4.0 spec
>(see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#bidi88598),
>and are in wide use.
>
>
>Currently, http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
>contains:
>
><<<<
>Name: ISO_8859-8:1988                                     [RFC1345,KXS2]
>MIBenum: 11
>Source: ECMA registry
>Alias: iso-ir-138
>Alias: ISO_8859-8
>Alias: ISO-8859-8 (preferred MIME name)
>Alias: hebrew
>Alias: csISOLatinHebrew
>
>Name: ISO_8859-8-E                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
>MIBenum: 84
>Source: RFC-1556
>Alias: csISO88598E
>
>Name: ISO_8859-8-I                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
>MIBenum: 85
>Source: RFC-1556
>Alias: csISO88598I
><<<<
>
>After the update, it should contain
>
><<<<
>Name: ISO_8859-8:1988                                     [RFC1345,KXS2]
>MIBenum: 11
>Source: ECMA registry
>Alias: iso-ir-138
>Alias: ISO_8859-8
>Alias: ISO-8859-8 (preferred MIME name)
>Alias: hebrew
>Alias: csISOLatinHebrew
>
>Name: ISO_8859-8-E                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
>MIBenum: 84
>Source: RFC-1556
>Alias: ISO-8859-8-e (preferred MIME name)
>Alias: csISO88598E
>
>Name: ISO_8859-8-I                                  [RFC1556,Nussbacher]
>MIBenum: 85
>Source: RFC-1556
>Alias: ISO-8859-8-i (preferred MIME name)
>Alias: csISO88598I
><<<<
>
>
>Many thanks in advance and kind regards,
>
>Martin.

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