- From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:44:14 +0200
- To: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@innosoft.com
It is not madness, this is what the aliases section is for, to record known aliases for the charset. If you only want to deal with one name, then use the charset name. Keld On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:49:48PM +0000, Misha Wolf wrote: > That's exactly why now is the time to say: Enough. Stop this madness. > > Misha > > [This mail was written using voice recognition software] > > > > It is in the style that has been done for all the other iso-8859 > > series of standards. So yu need to do it anyway for everything > > else. > > > > Keld > > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:38:52AM -0700, Erik van der Poel wrote: > > > I also object to the aliases. > > > > > > Erik > > > > > > > I strongly object to the large number of aliases listed below and > > > > propose that every alias request should document established usage. > > > > This sort of nonsense requires browser etc vendors to build ever- > > > > larger tables of rubbish into their products. Is it too late to > > > > stop this registration? > > > > > > > > > >Charset name: iso-8859-14 > > > > > > > > > > > >Charset aliases: > > > > > > > > > > > > &alias iso-ir-199 > > > > > > &alias ISO_8859-14:1998 > > > > > > &alias ISO_8859-14 > > > > > > &alias latin8 > > > > > > &alias iso-celtic > > > > > > &alias l8 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be > the views of Reuters Ltd.
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