>Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:58:24 -0600
>From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>(I haven't looked at I18N::Chraset, true, but I can't see how yet
>another piece of software could solve the basic problem that we all
>need to stick to some common naming of character encodins)
Perl should choose a consistent set. The IANA names are good as far as they go. See:
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html
for interesting info including a link to the IANA set.
Sometimes it takes awhile for new encodings to be registered with IANA however. Also,
many heavily used encodings have never been registered because they aren't used in
MIME or otherwise on the Internet. There's no standard naming convention for non-IANA
encodings. Every vendor makes up his own. Some vendors were apparently on drugs when
they did.
Probably an aliasing mechanism is required for no other reason than the IANA registry
lists many aliases with each official name. In many cases the aliases are what is used
in real life rather than the supposedly official name.
=Ed
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