Re: charset list

Thierry Sourbier wrote:
> 
> I think the x- prefix just means it isn't standard :)

it definitely does 

> My guess is that those
> names must have been introduced by IE or Netscape before the actual
> character encoding names Shift_JIS, JIS or EUC_JP got registered with the
> IANA. Now they've just become some legacy alias.

yes

> 
> Cheers,
> Thierry.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gorelik" <mgorelik@Novarra.com>
> To: <www-international@w3.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:58 PM
> Subject: charset list
> 
> > I can see that lots of japanese pages use x-sjis, x-jis, x-euc-jp charset.
> > However, I don't see those defined in IANA registry???
> >
> > Is there more places to look in order to get a full list of charset used?
> >
> > Misha Gorelik
> > *;O)
> >
> >

Received on Wednesday, 15 August 2001 15:53:22 UTC