- From: Gianni Mariani <marianig@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:27:11 -0800 (PST)
- To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
- Cc: gianni@microsoft.com
The registrations for ISO_8859-1:1987 and ISO_8859-1 seems to directly
contradict RFC 2278 ::
> RFC 2278 Charset Registration January 1998
> Each assigned name MUST uniquely identify a single
> charset.
and in .../assignments/character-sets we have the name
ISO-8859-1 used both as a name and an alias.
Name: ISO_8859-1:1987 [RFC1345,KXS2]
MIBenum: 4
Source: ECMA registry
Alias: iso-ir-100
Alias: ISO_8859-1
Alias: ISO-8859-1 (preferred MIME name)
Alias: latin1
Alias: l1
Alias: IBM819
Alias: CP819
Alias: csISOLatin1
Name: ISO-8859-1
MIBenum: 1004
Source: IBM Latin-1 SAA Core Coded Character Set.
Extended ISO 8859-1 Presentation Set, GCSGID: 2039
Alias: csUnicodeIBM2039
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Received on Sunday, 21 February 1999 01:34:36 UTC