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Re: Registration of new charset csPTCP154

From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:27:25 +0200
To: Alexander Uskov <auskov@idc.kz>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
Message-id: <345338049.1026512845@localhost>

(sorry for losing track and responding late)
one solution that has been applied to provide stable references is to take 
the data and publish it as an RFC - see RFC 2319, for instance.

it's relatively easy, but takes some time.

Or one could simply include the equivalence table in the registration.

                         Harald

--On 21. juni 2002 14:57 +0700 Alexander Uskov <auskov@idc.kz> wrote:

> Hello, Harald!
> You wrote to "Alexander Uskov" <auskov@idc.kz>; <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
> on Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:54:43 -0400:
>
>  HTA> is there a non-Web publication of this charset, or is it registered
>  HTA> with  some standardization agency?
>  HTA> web references have this nasty habit of disappearing after a few
>  HTA> years....
> PTCP154 is the "de facto" standard for cyrillic based languages of asian
> part of
> former USSR. PTCP154 is included in ciryllic linux distributions
> (BlackCat, Mandreke RE, AltLinux and others).
>
>  HTA> my personal hope would be that it is "limited use" - I think the
>  HTA> world is  not served well by more widespread charsets. But your
>  HTA> opinion may be  different.
> Cyrillic-Asian - it's a very small part of internet, byt not small part of
> personal computer users.
> The objective of this registration is to make software developers to
> include the support of corresponding
> code page in their products as well as e.g. koi8-u
>
>  HTA> btw, for some reason it is common to have the "csNNN" name as an
>  HTA> alias, and  have the name not starting with "cs"......
> Ok.
>
> Charset name:
> PTCP154
>
> Charset aliases:
> csPTCP154
> PT154
> CP154
> Cyrillic-Asian
>
> Suitability for use in MIME text:
> Yes
>
> Published specification(s):
> 1) http://www.paratype.ru/library/languag/Kirghiz.htm
> 2) ftp://ftp.logic.ru/pub/logic/linux/cyr-asian
>
> ISO 10646 equivalency table:
> ftp://ftp.logic.ru/pub/logic/linux/cyr-asian/pt154.txt
>
> Additional information:
> This charset based on CP1251 with added asian cyrillic symbols.
>
> Person & email address to contact for further information:
> Alexander Uskov
> InternetDataCenter of KazakhTelecom.
> e-mail: auskov@idc.kz
>
> Intended usage:
> COMMON
>
>
>  HTA>                          Harald
>
>
>  HTA> --On 28. mai 2002 14:43 +0700 Alexander Uskov <auskov@idc.kz>
>  HTA> wrote:
>
>  >> Charset name:
>  >> csPTCP154
>
>  >> Charset aliases:
>  >> PT154
>  >> CP154
>  >> Cyrillic-Asian
>
>  >> Suitability for use in MIME text:
>  >> Yes
>
>  >> Published specification(s):
>  >> 1) http://www.paratype.ru/library/languag/Kirghiz.htm
>  >> 2) ftp://ftp.logic.ru/pub/logic/linux/cyr-asian
>
>  >> ISO 10646 equivalency table:
>  >> ftp://ftp.logic.ru/pub/logic/linux/cyr-asian/pt154.txt
>
>  >> Additional information:
>  >> This charset based on CP1251 with added asian cyrillic symbols.
>
>  >> Person & email address to contact for further information:
>  >> Alexander Uskov
>  >> InternetDataCenter of KazakhTelecom.
>  >> e-mail: auskov@idc.kz
>
>  >> Intended usage:
>  >> COMMON
>
>
> ~~~
> wbr, Alexander Uskov
>
>
>
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