From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 04:49:15 CDT
In <3EC9B288.7000203@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Charles Lindsey wrote:
> > People
>> are just not going to invent charsets or languages of that length.
>WTF are you yammering about? The charsets and language tags are already
>"invented" and registered. Go look at http://www.iana.org/numbers.html
Ah! You mean where it says:
Name: Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese
MIBenum: 18
Source: Standardized by OSF, UNIX International, and UNIX Systems
Laboratories Pacific. Uses ISO 2022 rules to select
code set 0: US-ASCII (a single 7-bit byte set)
code set 1: JIS X0208-1990 (a double 8-bit byte set)
restricted to A0-FF in both bytes
code set 2: Half Width Katakana (a single 7-bit byte set)
requiring SS2 as the character prefix
code set 3: JIS X0212-1990 (a double 7-bit byte set)
restricted to A0-FF in both bytes
requiring SS3 as the character prefix
Alias: csEUCPkdFmtJapanese
Alias: EUC-JP (preferred MIME name)
Problem solved, I think.
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