On 3/24/20 11:42 AM, Corentin via SG16 wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 15:42, Steven R. Loomis <srl295_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:srl295_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
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> Corentin,
> Please see some of the work done in ICU on encodings.
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> In particular, IANA does not specify the actual mapping. So we
> have found the IANA names insufficient to distinguish two actual
> encodings, shift_jis is an example. Comment and datafile:
> https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/convrtrs.txt#L93
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> So while IANA names are widely used from a spec point of view, in
> practice there are many, many challenges with their use in
> implementation.
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> This proposal is solely about names and not encoding conversion facilities

Corentin, I think you misunderstood Steven's response. I believe his
point was that some (at least one) of the names in the IANA registry are
insufficient to uniquely identify an encoding.

Tom.

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> There is a stablilized UTR22 https://unicode.org/reports/tr22/ for
> an XML form of char mappings, and ICU had produced an XML form:
> https://github.com/unicode-org/icu-data/tree/master/charset/data/xml However,
> we stopped short of actually maintaining a registry of UTR22
> mappings with their names (other than what is in ICU.)
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> In practice, I think most of the use of encodings today falls
> under the WHATWG set: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/ - which
> defines exactly the behavior and naming for a very small subset.
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> So I also have concerns about simply referring to IANA.
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>> El mar. 24, 2020, a las 2:35 a. m., Corentin via SG16
>> <sg16_at_[hidden] <mailto:sg16_at_[hidden]>> escribió:
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>> Hey!
>> Thanks for your feedback
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>> A few things:
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>> * It does not evolve a lot (Neither the database nor the proposal
>> are forward looking - RFC3808 is from 2004)
>> * There is nothing more complete (or more official)
>> * It has vendor buy in (form Microsoft and IBM for which it maps
>> to their code page), the same names are also used by iconv on
>> unix system
>> * It is widely used by browsers, mail clients
>> * We have experience with referencing rfc in the standards.
>> * If this is still a concern, we could duplicate the entire thing
>> in the standard - which I would recommend against.
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>> That standard registry is pivotal to the proposal portability. we
>> need to agree on names and meaning.
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>> I hope that helps,
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>> Regards,
>> Corentin
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>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 09:26, Peter Brett <pbrett_at_[hidden]
>> <mailto:pbrett_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
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>> Hi Corentin and SG16,
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>> We discussed P1885R1 briefly in the British Standards
>> Institute meeting yesterday.
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>> We support the general direction of the paper and agree that
>> it seeks to solve a real problem. We support further work.
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>> We have significant concerns about the proposal to rely on
>> the IANA registry and RFC2978/RFC3808 process, including a
>> normative reference to the Character Sets database. The
>> Character Sets database is not an International Standard and
>> is maintained by a process that appears to provide neither
>> the quality assurance nor the checks and balances built into
>> the ISO process.
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>> Best regards,
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>> Peter
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