Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:28:07PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: >> Microsoft products use 'ks_c_5601-1987' as an encoding name/MIME >> charset/character set encoding scheme. That's a very strange use >> of KS C 5601-1987. Because, what they mean by 'ks_c_5601-1987' >> is actually CP949/Unified Hangul Code(UHC)/X-Windows-949, >> an upward compatible proprieatary extension of EUC-KR. > >Just a quite note: exactly the same thing has happened with Microsoft's >use of 'gb2312' to mean 'gbk', and 'big5' to mean 'cp950'. In Encode.pm, >I've been carefully avoiding this misbehaviour; it has been fortunate that >'ks_c_5601_1987' has a distinct name from 'ksc5601'. :-)
At least they are consistently wrong across the world, most MS things claiming to be iso-8859-1 are really cp1252 > >/Autrijus/ > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.6d-cvs (FreeBSD) > >iEYEARECAAYFAjyhnoMACgkQtLPdNzw1AaB1gQCghITGqkt9MQWL/5Rozdq+KOEa >fJkAnRDSvdwxJMVmREw7MlRr3XvdujEt >=Oykx >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
