RE: charset list

Microsoft has a good alias list, though it's by no means official, at
the end of this page:
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml
/reference/charsets/charset4.asp
 
-J-

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: Michael Gorelik 
 Sent: Wed 8/15/2001 2:04 PM 
 To: 'A. Vine'; Thierry Sourbier 
 Cc: www-international@w3.org 
 Subject: RE: charset list
 
 

 So is there some list of those none-standard aliases
somewhere???
 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: A. Vine [mailto:avine@eng.sun.com]
 > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:51 PM
 > To: Thierry Sourbier
 > Cc: Michael Gorelik; www-international@w3.org
 > Subject: 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 18:33:34 UTC