- From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 15:29:29 +0100
- To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:09:16AM +0200, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > I propose to register ISO_8859-8:1999 as an alias to ISO_8859-8:1988. > > Reference: > http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28 > 252 > > Justification: ISO_8859-8:1999 is a superset of ISO_8859-8:1988. Valid > ISO_8859-8:1988 data will still be valid under ISO_8859-8:1999. The new > characters were reserved in ISO_8859-8:1988. Registering ISO_8859-8:1999 > as a separate character set would cause too much unnecessary confusion. As the two charsets are not exactly equivalent, they should not be aliases. Kind regards Keld
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