Re: IANA names for character set encodings?
Bill Janssen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.python.internationalization |
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| Message-ID | <02Feb8.170000pst."3456"@watson.parc.xerox.com> |
> Adding all of them seems overkill though... and cumbersome, e.g. > nobody uses names like ANSI_X3.4-1968 -- us-ascii is the > common name. Since the aliases can live in an aliases file, I don't see that it's a big deal to add them all, and it will really help in dealing with Internet protocols correctly. It is valid to put 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' in as a charset value when sending something. I'd like my Python app to be able to cope with that possibility. Bill