Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > - There is no such encoding 'Latin-1'. It is called 'Latin1' or > > 'ISO-8859-1'; > > see the IANA registry of character sets: > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets > > ... the document you cite is either incomplete or inconsistent.
It is the standard document; implementations of charset converters take their info from there. Therefore it is complete by definition. > For example, "ISO_8859-1:1987" has an alias "latin1" (lowercase "L"!), > whereas "ISO-8859-15" has an alias "Latin-9" (with hyphen). Yes. You can say it's inconsistent. That's life. > Anyhow, the "Latin alphabet No. 1" defined by "ISO/IEC 8859-1" > is often called "Latin-1" or "Latin 1" for short (but the term > is probably inofficial) These terms are not only inofficial, they also not guaranteed to work in practice: $ iconv -t "Latin-1" iconv: conversion to `Latin-1' is not supported $ iconv --version iconv (GNU libc) 2.3.6 Bruno
