On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:32 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Alexander Belopolsky wrote: .. >> In what sense is "Latin-1" the official name? The IANA charset >> registry has the following listing >> >> >> 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 .. > "Latin-1" is short for "Latin Alphabet No. 1" and > started out as ECMA-94 in 1985 and 1986:
This does not explain your preference of "Latin-1" over "Latin1". Both are perfectly valid abbreviations for "Latin Alphabet No. 1". The spelling without "-" has the advantage of being a valid Python identifier and a module name. The IANA registration for "latin1" and lack of that for "latin-1" most likely indicates that the former is more commonly found in machine readable metadata. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
