I18N-ISSUE-367 (BUG17053): [survey needed] Perhaps support KOI8-RU instead of KOI-8 [encoding]

I18N-ISSUE-367 (BUG17053): [survey needed] Perhaps support KOI8-RU instead of KOI-8 [encoding]

http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/367

Raised by: Addison Phillips
On product: encoding

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17053

This issue created as part of the WG LC process from a bug filed before the WG LC.

This bug reads in part:

IE takes the labels koi8-u and koi8-ru to mean KOI8-RU and not KOI8-U.  The difference is that KOI8-RU has an additional letter needed for Byelorussian,

AE:  U+045E  (ў) and
BE:  U+040E  (Ў),

where KOI8-U has line-drawing characters,

AE:  U+255D  (╝) and
BE:  U+256C  (╬).

Letters are arguably more important than box-drawing characters, so KOI8-RU might be a better choice than KOI-8-U, at least if it can be shown that koi8-(r)u is used for Byelorussian (i.e., that AE/BE are used to encode ў/Ў).

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 03:00:20 UTC