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Re: MML charset tag regression
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: MML charset tag regression |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:33:56 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:
Dave> At least you have a chance of interpreting the names, but
Dave> you can't know anything about private charset definitions,
Dave> even if they were allowed.
I don't understand what you mean. There's nothing in the definition
of Compound Text that prohibits use private charset definitions in
extended segments that I can see. (I don't have a recent X Consortium
version, but the R5 version is word for word identical with the
X11R6.4 version that comes with XFree86 4.2, excepting the exception
for using DOCS for UTF-8, of course. Aargh. At least they don't
prohibit use of extended segments for UTF-8.)
Are you referring to use of private charsets via the private final
bytes with regular ISO-2022 designations?
>> If one really want to encode iso-8859-X by using an extended
>> segment, he can modify non-standard-designations-alist
Dave> But that violates the specification in the same way that
Dave> xfree86 (or gtk or whatever it is) does.
Right. We can't prevent it, but we should document it as
"discouraged" in the strongest possible terms.
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