- From: Michael Adams <linux_mike@paradise.net.nz>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 00:42:31 +1200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:11:14 +0300 Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > Michael Adams wrote: > > > I found the ECMA tie-in to ISO 8859-1 Latin-1, dated March 85 and > > June 86. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#History > > References to ECMA standards are irrelevant when discussing "Latin 1" > in the Internet context, since the authority on encoding names for > Internet use is IANA, and the IANA registery does not name any > ECMA-based _name_ for ISO-8859-1, even though it cites "ECMA registry" > as the source. > > > Though not the definitive authority, > > Wikipedia is not an authority of any kind, and it's surely just > confusing in many confused issues like this. > > > There > > are two encodings: "ISO 8859-1" and "ISO-8859-1" note the hyphen > > versus space after ISO. > > That's nonsense. Registered encoding names have no spaces. When "ISO > 8859-1" is used, it refers to the _standard_ (proper) defining the > encoding. It might be a good idea to accept, as error recovery, it as > meaning "ISO-8859-1" as a charset parameter value, but it would still > be an error. > Found this, I now understand that where Wikipedia makes the differentiation was when the standard was revised in 1998 which outdated the 1987 version. Presumably these are what Wikipedia tries to state are two seperate encodings. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=28245 I therefore believe as Jukka said that ECMA codings no longer apply here. As the ECMA encoding was the proposal that got accepted to ISO circa 1987, and has been since revised. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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