Martin v. Löwis wrote: > While you are at it, you'll notice that the current version of the > character-sets database lists > > Name: ISO-8859-15 > MIBenum: 111 > Source: ISO > Please see: > <http://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/ISO-8859-15> > Alias: ISO_8859-15 > Alias: Latin-9 > > so the "official" alias is "Latin-9", not "latin9". You may > want to ask the submitter of that entry why this inconsistency > was introduced.
Unfortunately, I got no reply and I really cannot see any reason for this inconsistency; probably it was a mistake or carelessness. According to http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/manual/Tabular.html, "l9 and latin9 are aliases for this charset. Source: ISO 2375 registry." So I think it cannot harm adding latin9 as an alias name. "Latin-9" will then be recognized automatically since I think capitalization and hyphens do not matter anyway (I'll check that). Shall I proceed writing such a patch? Shall I also add latin0 and l0 which are other inofficial aliases? -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
