bug#5387: MS950 alias for CP950 charset

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <87aawfzl6w.fsf@jidanni.org>, jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> I signed up on the Legislature of Taiwan's website, and the confirmation
> mail had
> From: sysop@ly.gov.tw
> Subject: =?BIG5?B?pd+qa7B8pf6yebjqsFS69C2/76XBqkGwyLHSsMq9VLt7qOc=?=
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=MS950
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> And it turns out MS950 is an alias for CP950,

Where did you get that information?

> so perhaps emacs should
> incorporate this alias, even though this is the first time I've seen it.
> Perhaps make all MSxxx be aliases for CPxxx.

I checked <http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets>
and found that only MS936 is listed as an alias of GBK.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org