- From: Nikita The Spider The Spider <nikitathespider@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:52:09 -0400
- To: "Dana C. Chandler III" <dchandler@e-dialog.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 5/29/07, Dana C. Chandler III <dchandler@e-dialog.com> wrote: > I sent this question off recently: Is there a definitive list of > Character sets that have ASCII as a subset? Dana, If by "definitive" you mean "published by an authoritative organization" then I think the best place to look would be the IANA since they publish the charset registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets My guess is that they don't bother to enumerate which encodings are ASCII supersets. It'd be a pretty daunting task to sort *all* encodings based on whether or not they're ASCII supersets. There's a lot of encodings and the list is not static. (Note that the IANA list changed just two weeks ago.) But in practice I don't think it would be hard to make a list that covers all of the encodings you're likely to encounter, especially if your application's domain is narrowly-defined. Good luck -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more
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