Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> a year ago, there was a discussion on this list about Encode not >> recognizing "TIS-620" as alias for "iso-8859-11": >> >> http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.unicode/1656 >> >> In the latest release of Encode::Alias (1.38 from Encode 1.9801, >> included in Perl 5.8.2-RC1), "TIS-620" will still fail as a valid >> encoding name, although that is still the only Thai character-set name >> approved by IANA. So why not applying that simple patch to > >As far as I can remember, TIS-620 and ISO-8859-11 are not identical: >the ISO-8859-11 has non-break-space in 0xA0, while the TIS620 doesn't >(where it's undefined). So aliasing wouldn't be correct, we would need >to have a completely new table for the ISO-8859-11.
Which would not take up much run-time space due to the compression scheme which shares common table entries between encodings. Suggest someone copies ISO-8859-11 tweaks it and adds it to the 8-bit group. (Or starting from definitive TIS-620 would be good).
