- From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 08:07:32 -0700
- To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Chris Newman wrote:
> However, I do object to the following two aliases:
>> ISO_8859-1:1987 IBM819 IBM-819
>> ANSI_X3.4-1968 IBM367 IBM-367
Well, fact is that
a) There are already a number of aliases for these charsets
that implementations have to deal with.
b) There is a large installed base of software for (and of) IBM
operating systems and middleware that use the numeric IDs
819 and 367 and tend to prepend "IBM-" to all IDs
for interoperation with open-standards systems.
Although these charsets are among the most important and most widely used, it seems artificial to limit the use of aliases only for these two.
markus
Received on Tuesday, 6 August 2002 11:12:07 UTC