> its preferred MIME name is 'Shift_JIS'. If there is a name marked as
> 'preferred MIME name' by IANA, this name is the recommended one. This
> also meets the W3C guidelines. W3C also recommends to use them all in
> lowercase. Since they are case insensitive, I don't see any advantage
> in not using them in all lowercase. The only allowed aliases for
> shift_jis approved by IANA are 'MS_Kanji' and 'csShiftJIS', but not
> 'shiftjis'.
There is a wonderful (shameless plug ;-) perl module called I18N::Charset which does
all this for you. The function names are kind of quirky, but hey, it works! You can
even feed it "x-sjis" and it knows the official name is Shift_JIS.
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- - Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn
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