- From: Sam Sun <ssun@CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:27:24 -0500
- To: <erik@netscape.com>
- Cc: "www international" <www-international@w3.org>, "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org>
Thanks for clearing this up for me! I got confused because I had my browser's default encoding set to GB2312. So "gb_2312-80" is the correct charset encoding, and Front Page did it right. One more problem though. It seems that Netscape Communicator doesn't recognize the "gb_2312-80", but only "gb2312". IE4.0 supports both. I just created a web page which can be used to test against these tags, and it's at: http://ssun.cnri.reston.va.us/gb2312/index.html So, is GB_2312-80 a widely accepted name? I'm new to the list, please someone let me know if the question shouldn't be raised here. Thanks, Sam -----Original Message----- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com> To: Sam Sun <ssun@CNRI.Reston.Va.US> Cc: www international <www-international@w3.org>; Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org> Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com >The Internet charset registry is at: > >ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets > >The GB 2312-related entries are as follows: > >Name: GB_2312-80 [RFC1345,KXS2] >MIBenum: 57 >Source: ECMA registry >Alias: iso-ir-58 >Alias: chinese >Alias: csISO58GB231280 > >Name: GB2312 (preferred MIME name) >MIBenum: 2025 >Source: Chinese for People's Republic of China (PRC) mixed one byte, > two byte set: > 20-7E = one byte ASCII > A1-FE = two byte PRC Kanji > See GB 2312-80 > PCL Symbol Set Id: 18C >Alias: csGB2312 > >Name: HZ-GB-2312 >MIBenum: 2085 >Source: RFC 1842, RFC 1843 [RFC1842, RFC1843] > >As you can see, "GB2312" is the name of the charset that also contains >single-byte ASCII characters. This is the charset that is used in many places, >including Web pages. GB_2312-80 has an alias "iso-ir-58", which means that it is >registration number 58 in ISO's registry, and this character set does not >include single-byte ASCII characters, so this is not the charset that is used on >the Internet. The "HZ-GB-2312" charset is a 7-bit encoding of GB 2312, used in >some places such as Usenet newsgroups. > >Summary: "GB2312" is the correct name. > >(It is case-insensitive, so "gb2312" is also correct.) > >Erik > >Sam Sun wrote: > >> There is a similar bug from Front Page 97, the Microsoft's web authering >> tool. >> >> When used to generate HTML documents using Simplified Chinese Character Set >> encoding, it uses illegal charset name "gb_2312-80". >> >> I believe the right charset name should be "gb-2312-80". Note that it's not >> a underscore >> character between "gb" and "2312", but a hyphen character. >
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