- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:06:22 -0500
- To: Uma Umamaheswaran <umavs@ca.ibm.com>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
At 12:23 04/01/29 -0500, Uma Umamaheswaran wrote: >Martin: > > >http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/technicalpublications/whitepapers/solunic > > osuppt.pdf?redirect=false > > I didn't find this. I got redirected to > http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/. Can you provide > a better reference? > >Sorry I should have double checked before reposting .. that site seems to >have expanded and the document is now at: > >http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/technicalpublications/whitepapers/soluni >cosuppt.pdf Thanks. >You will also note that Annex A.1 has different possible namings for the >ISO 8859 series as well. The Unix world and (the then Open Software >Foundation) had the codeset names already published before the IANA names / >aliases were published. That could be an argument to consider (and that you have not yet made). Any pointers? The document above is dated May 2000. >What you will see there is that legacy -- I am >sure you will see these in the Linux world as well. > >We are not asking for these aliases -- though someone could raise the issue >in the future. I'm very glad you are not (except, in my understanding, for aliases of us-ascii and iso-8859-1, which I think is a serious problem). >I understand there was a separate thread of discussions on >igonoring dashes, spaces etc. in Labels from IANA registry (including the >labels) ... however, the exact matching requirements of XML seems to >override any such flexibility (except the case-ignore). It's not only XML that does exact case-insensitive matching. Other formats and protocols have the same requirements. >I will be getting back on the other questions posted ... Best regards, >Uma Looking forward to it. Regards, Martin.
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