Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:54:52 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, doc@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-tech-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-tech-jp 2283] Re: Resolution: FDP reorganisation Message-ID: <199906241154.UAA20655@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:12:17 MST." <199906240812.BAA57382@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <199906240812.BAA57382@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> * [1] There are two changes to that message. In conjunction with the recentl >y > * committed change that moved /usr/share/local/zh_TW.BIG5 to zh_TW.Big5, > * the "Big5" variant will be used in the new repository as well. > * > * And after comments from the Japanese Doc. Proj., the directory for > * Japanese docs in the repository will be ja_JP.EUC-JP. > >Objection. That is not a widely used name in Japan and has no basis >in standards. I assume you are referring to this document in the >other mail: > >http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets > >which specifies MIME charsets. MIME charsets have nothing to do with >codeset names in locales. > >This will make us incompatible with almost everyone in Japan and the >world, in particular, X/Open (think XFree86), which use >ja_JP.eucJP. See "Internationalisation Guide, Version 2 By X / Open" > >http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=013353541X Nik, if you want to name repository directories based on Unix locale naming convention, please stick with known and common locale names such as ja_JP.eucJP and ja_JP.SJIS. As Satoshi has pointed out, the IANA document defines names for MIME charsets. These names has nothing to do with locale names. We shouldn't mix up these two conventions/standards. Otherwise, we will have something which is not conforming to anything. Please use eucJP and SJIS rather than EUC-JP and ShiftJIS. Kazu PS. Please cc to FreeBSD-tech-jp@jp.freebsd.org or directly write to me. I don't subscribe to doc@FreeBSD.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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