Robert Allerstorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi Dan, > >> Well, unless I hear requests from Thai native users, I'll abstain since >> TIS620 did not exist in http://www.unicode.org/Public/. So far as I >> see ISO-8859-11 suffices. >> >> But once again I am only human so correct me if I am wrong. >> >> Dan the Man with Too Many Encodings to Support; Too Many Typos Generated > >The only character set of the ISO-8859 family that has not (yet?) been >assigned by IANA as a valid name or alias is ISO-8859-11. According to >http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, currently only >"TIS-620" is a valid name for Thai. It's unique ID number (MIBenum) is >2259. IMO, it would be nice if Perl's Encode module would at least >recognize all IANA approved names. I am also wondering why Encode's >default encoding names sometimes differ from IANA's recommended names >- eg. Perl's "shiftjis" vs. IANA's "shift_jis" (lowercased from >original "Shift_JIS", since all the names are case insensitive). >Wouldn't it be easier to use standardized names whenever possible?
I agree that perl should accept all the IANA names. As for the default names _I_ decided to use MIME name as prefered name when it existed - they seemed to be more "usable" (less embedded or at least more systematic-looking punctuation, more familiar from e-mail and HTTP headers etc.) We can revisit that if people think it would help. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
