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Re: [Bug-teseq] codesets are not shown


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: Re: [Bug-teseq] codesets are not shown
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:38:26 -0700
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Bruno Haible wrote:
> Micah Cowan wrote:
>> I was hoping, though, to leave intact the simpler names ("Spanish", etc)
>> to make it crystal clear to whoever reads it, what language the
>> character set had been intended for (where this is known). But I can add
>> these back in later.
> 
> Yes, I can easily imagine that every entry in iso_ir_names be followed by
> a description of the encoding in parentheses. E.g.
> 
>   /* 025 */ "ISO646-FR1", /* = "NF_Z_62-010_1973" */
> becomes
>   /* 025 */ "ISO646-FR1 (original French variant of ISO 646; aliases: 
> NF_Z_62-010_1973)",

Well, I was thinking something a bit simpler, such as "ISO646-FR1
(French)". They can already tell that it's not the same as "ISO646-FR"
by the fact that the names differ. :)

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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