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Subject: Re: wchar.h / Citrus import
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From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Subject: Re: wchar.h / Citrus import
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:02:08 +0400
Message-ID: <20010515160205.A13868@nagual.pp.ru>

> > 1. Naming convention
> >   Just FYI, NetBSD locale names is bacically following to
> >   the primary name of X Window System locale,
> >   e.g. en_US.ISO8859-1, ja_JP.eucJP, ko_KR.eucKR...
> >   But, I think we need not to change the names already existing in FreeBSD.
> 
> X11 names are non-standard, there is no such names in IANA registry. Lets
> not repeat mistakes of others.

I think this is just difference of policy.
# I dare to say, wrong is MIME, historically. ;-)


> > 4. IANA charset names vs. locale charset names
> >   I think locale charset names should be used for locale name only,
> >   except iconv_open(3) should accept both namespaces.
> No. There are standard rules how to build locale name from the language,
> territory and codeset. All three components are expected to follow
> standards, including codeset.

I know.  "locale charset names" I said means "codeset" you said.

"locale charset names"    "IANA charset names"
(NetBSD)
eucJP                     EUC-JP
ISO8859-1                 ISO-8859-1
....                      ....


--
Takuya SHIOZAKI


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