- From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:40:27 +0100
- To: Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit@apple.com>, IETF Charsets Mailing List <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
nobody seems to have commented on this.... if "macintosh" is used in the industry to refer to a charset that has the euro sign in it, then I, personally, think that we should update the registration to point out that fact. In a more rational world, a new "macintosh-euro" charset would be registered, but the currency symbol is the single most useless character I know about - redefining its codepoint does not cause a great deal of harm to the world. What do others think? Harald --On 14. desember 2001 11:17 -0800 Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit@apple.com> wrote: > The IANA registration for the charset "macintosh", which represents the > Mac OS Roman character set, currently refers to RFC 1345. > > Since RFC 1345 was published, the definition of the MacRoman character > set has changed. In particular, the code point 0xDB, which was formerly > U+00A4 CURRENCY SIGN, was redefined to be U+20AC EURO SIGN. > > What would be the appropriate course of action to deal with this > discrepancy? Registering a new "macintosh-euro" character set seems like > overkill. Apple would prefer to just redefine the IANA-registered > character set "macintosh" to conform to the new definition of MacRoman. > Is that allowed? If so, what procedure should be followed? > > The definition of MacRoman can be found at: > > http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT > > Would it be appropriate to refer to that rather than to a (revised) RFC? > > Thanks, > > Deborah Goldsmith > Manager, Fonts & Language Kits > Apple Computer, Inc. > goldsmith@apple.com > > >
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