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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11423 --- Comment #5 from brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> 2010-11-29 13:17:04 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Big Blue managed to do it, so it's easy? Your standard of proof may be lower > than mine here. ;) Several large corporations have done it, including Microsoft themselves. I don't see even a cursory response to the listed objections to the registration, or really any follow-up whatsoever on Microsoft's part. At least I respond to objections. ;-) > Assuming you're interested in user agents being able to process the existing > web corpus using only IANA-registered characters sets, you perhaps should have > some level of interest in doing so. ;) I'm interested in a complete specification. If the HTML5 Working Group wants to refer to windows-949, then I think it should be appropriately registered with IANA. I would be just as happy (maybe even happier) if windows-949 were not mentioned at all, since I personally find the "misinterpreted for compatibility" idea revolting. But that's beside the point: for better or for worse, IANA is *the* authoritative source for character sets (among myriad other things). If I need to know about a character set, I look there first, and so will pretty much every implementer. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/goglobal/cc305154.aspx (which the spec > references) defines an authoritative mapping of windows-949 to Unicode. If you want to register it, I will fully support it. In fact, once it's done, I'll close this bug report myself. I am not registering it because I am not willing to be ultimately responsible for the specification of a character set for a language I don't read, write, speak, or understand. I also believe it's an unnecessary legacy character set. > If the spec simply defined the preferred name of Windows-949 as > (case-insensitive) "Windows-949", could we close this bug? Nope. I would be happy with (a) windows-949 being registered with IANA, or (b) windows-949 not being mentioned at all. An additional alternative, which is not at all preferable, is a note in the text to the effect of "The HTML5 Working Group has deliberately chosen to refer to and favor over other, better-specified alternatives (e.g. EUC-KR) the character set 'windows-949', even though it is not registered properly with IANA." -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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