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- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:26:41 -0400
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For some reason, the attached did not make it to the list yesterday ..
resending .. Uma.
----- Forwarded by Uma Umamaheswaran/Toronto/IBM on 2002-07-30 13:26 -----
Uma Umamaheswaran
To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
2002-07-29 13:16 cc:
From: Uma Umamaheswaran/Toronto/IBM@ibmca
Subject: Proposal for additional Aliases to IANA registry of character sets
To: RFC 2978 - IANA character set registration review list
Character Set Reviewer, IANA
A proposal for adding several aliases of the form IBM-xxxxx to the current
IANA registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets follows
this note. The justification is included in the proposal. Per RFC 2978
this is being sent for a two week comment period to the ietf-charset list.
If there are any questions or clarifications needed please contact myself
or Nancy (see contact info at the end of this proposal).
V.S. (Uma) Umamaheswaran, Ph.D. ,
IBM Standards Projects Authority for SIRS030 - Coded Character Sets
Globalization Centre of Competency, IBM Canada Lab, 8200 Warden Avenue,
B3/979, Markham, Ontario, L6G 1C7
Ph: +1 905-413-3474 (Tie 969); Fax:905 413 4903; Internet:
umavs@ca.ibm.com; Notes: umavs@ibmca; VM: umavs@torolab2
==========================
Proposal for Addition of New Alias Names to Existing Iana Registered
Character Sets
Introduction:
There are currently has 54 entries identifying IBM's character sets in the
IANA Character Set Registry with names in the form IBMxxx, where xxx is
the IBM code page id. In addition to these entries, there are two IBMxxx
aliases in the IANA Registry. We have found that a number of software
products use the format IBM-xxx to support the IBM codes. This has become
an issue when products that base their support on IANA registered names
and aliases receive data tagged in the IBM-xxx format. The tag is not
recognized and an error results.
Proposed Resolution:
For each registered character set with a name (or alias) in the form
IBMxxx add an alias name of the form IBM-xxx. See the specific list
included below in the Detail section.
Justification:
We are requesting the addition of these aliases, because the use of names
that includes the dash is prevalent, e.g., a number of software tools
support the dash spelling. As a result, we have a body of XML documents
that include encoding declarations for the dash variants, without XML
processor support for these documents.
Here are some examples of the use of the dash aliases:
Sun Solaris iconv:
http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/technicalpublications/whitepapers/solunicosuppt.pdf?redirect=false
See page 32
IBM AIX iconv:
http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/genprogc/genprogc02.htm
See Appendix A, IBM Code Sets
IBM DB2 XML:
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/os390/pdf2/v7/dxxxa710.pdf
See Appendix C, table 64, page 255
OS/390 reference:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CBCPG120/7.6.4
See section 7.6.4 Code Set Converters Supplied, Table 76.
Detail
Existing Iana Proposed Alias
Name Name
IBM037 IBM-37
IBM038 IBM-38
IBM273 IBM-273
IBM274 IBM-274
IBM275 IBM-275
IBM277 IBM-277
IBM278 IBM-278
IBM280 IBM-280
IBM281 IBM-281
IBM284 IBM-284
IBM285 IBM-285
IBM290 IBM-290
IBM297 IBM-297
IBM420 IBM-420
IBM423 IBM-423
IBM424 IBM-424
IBM437 IBM-437
IBM500 IBM-500
IBM775 IBM-775
IBM850 IBM-850
IBM851 IBM-851
IBM852 IBM-852
IBM855 IBM-855
IBM857 IBM-857
IBM860 IBM-860
IBM861 IBM-861
IBM862 IBM-862
IBM863 IBM-863
IBM864 IBM-864
IBM865 IBM-865
IBM866 IBM-866
IBM868 IBM-868
IBM869 IBM-869
IBM870 IBM-870
IBM871 IBM-871
IBM880 IBM-880
IBM891 IBM-891
IBM903 IBM-903
IBM904 IBM-904
IBM905 IBM-905
IBM918 IBM-918
IBM1026 IBM-1026
IBM00858 IBM-858
IBM00924 IBM-924
IBM01140 IBM-1140
IBM01141 IBM-1141
IBM01142 IBM-1142
IBM01143 IBM-1143
IBM01144 IBM-1144
IBM01145 IBM-1145
IBM01146 IBM-1146
IBM01147 IBM-1147
IBM01148 IBM-1148
IBM01149 IBM-1149
Existing Iana Existing Alias Proposed Alias
Name Name Name
ISO_8859-1:1987 IBM819 IBM-819
ANSI_X3.4-1968 IBM367 IBM-367
Contact Information:
For additional information on this proposal contact:
Nancy MacIver
Globalization Center of Competency, Toronto
Phone 905-413-3735 tie 969-3735
e-mail nancymac@ca.ibm.com
OR
V.S. UMAmaheswaran, IBM SPA for SIRS-030 - Coded Character Sets
Globalization Center of Competency, Toronto
Phone 905-413-3474 TL 969-3474
e-mail: umavs@ca.ibm.com
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