What’s the canonical string name for Windows code page 949? What about 950? The pattern-following answers windows-949 and windows-950 would mean not using IANA naming as registered. (java.nio uses x-windows-949 and x-windows-950. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html . That page shows a problem with IANA names: Java started using x-windows-874, but then windows-874 was registered, but by then changing the canonical name would have been an API break.)

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024, at 10:14 PM, Tiago Freire wrote:
I'm not a fan of mapping encodings to numbers.
I don't t see a point of throwing at it every single encoding and the kitchen sink, most of them should be obsolete anyhow, pretty sure there will still be something that a user might want to do that would be left out.
But these encodings have names, why not compile time strings as identifiers? Probably those names would be there regardless, why not have them pull double duty?


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On Sunday 21 July 2024 11:39:54 GMT-7 Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > Is there such an 1:1 mapping?
>
> I believe not: Windows code pages 950 (Traditional Chinese) and 949 (Korean)
> don't appear to have IANA registrations. They differ from Big5 and EUC-KR
> in a way analogous to how windows-1252 differs from ISO-8859-1, how
> windows-31j differs from Shift_JIS, and how GBK differs from GB2312.

How about some other identifier roster that has such 1:1 mapping? We don't have
to use the IANA registrations, we can specify one that works.

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