Hi Simon,
Thanks for your reply.
In fact most applications seem do just what you suggest, alias them. The
desing question in Java is whether to ignore the encodings entirely, or to
alias the encodings. And if to alias the encodings, whether to alias them
in low down - in the JRE, or higher up, in packages such as JavaMail. What
do you think?
- yba
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Simon Montagu wrote:
> Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> > Hi Ivrix and Linux-IL list members,
> > Are the character encodings iso-8859-6-e, iso-8859-6-i, iso-8859-8-e,
> > iso-8859-8-i still used, and if so, how widely. Should I add support for
> > these encodings to Java? Does anyone really need them anymore for other
> > languages or are they all legacy encodings?
> > TIA,
>
> What do you mean by "support"? If all you need to do is convert between
> these encodings and others, you can consider them as aliases for
> iso-8859-6 and iso-8859-8.
>
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