[whatwg] Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Tue Jun 9 02:55:42 PDT 2009


On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:42:57 +0200, Øistein E. Andersen <liszt at coq.no> wrote:
> Le 5 juin 09, Anne van Kesteren écrivit :
>> Is the implication here that Shift_JIS and Shift-JIS are distinct [...]?
>
> No, Shift-JIS and Windows-932 are commonly used names/labels for the  
> encodings that are registered as Shift_JIS and Windows-31J  
> (respectively) in the IANA charset registry. Sorry for the confusion  
> caused.

So should HTML5 mention that Windows-932 maps to Windows-31J? (It does not appear in the IANA registry.)


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