Hello, developers!

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
lists ISO-8859-1 as the preferred MIME name:

Name: ISO_8859-1:1987                           [RFC1345,KXS2]
MIBenum: 4
Source: ECMA registry
Alias: iso-ir-100
Alias: ISO_8859-1
Alias: ISO-8859-1 (preferred MIME name)
Alias: latin1
Alias: l1
Alias: IBM819
Alias: CP819
Alias: csISOLatin1

Maybe s/ISO 8859/ISO-8859/g through out our docs?

BTW (I'm coming from Java development) Java runtime used to
recognize only proprietary Java names for encodings, like
ISO8859_1, but at least for several years already they started
accepting the IANA preferred character names as aliases to
their internal names. Moreover the IANA character names
have been said to be the preferred way of naming character
sets at lest in the javax.server.* interfaces.

So people coming from Java background probably already have
their hands hard-coded to use the preferred MIME names and
experience some surprise seeing ISO 8859-1, which seems
a bit Perl-proprietary, does not it ;-) ?

- Anton


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