Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 4 authors, 2024-12-14

Re: names of ISO 8859 encodings

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-12-14 00:37:19

Hi Bruno,

On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 01:23:09AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi,

Commit 3ed1de0ddccb42bae4151c7225d3fddeab04ff43 should better
be reverted, IMO. The ISO organization or their *standards* can
be renamed to whatever names; what matters here is what the
*encoding* is commonly referred to.

The *encoding* names are standardized by IANA:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
The first ISO 8859 encoding there has the name
  ISO-8859-1
or
  ISO_8859-1
and the first among these is the preferred MIME name. So, please,
in encoding names:
  * revert the ISO -> ISO/IEC change,
  * change the space after ISO to a dash/hyphen-minus.

Likewise (partially) for commit d5e5db91ece5955b21ae1aedc03ba1d56d3cf423.

Bruno
I'm okay with reverting those if there's consensus.  Would you mind
CCing the interested parties (e.g., the people that requested that
change, and anybody that participated in the discussion)?

(I've CCed them now, anyway.)

Thanks!
And have a lovely night!
Alex


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