Codecs for ISO 8859-11 (Thai) and 8859-16 (Romanian)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 3 12:09:09 EDT 2004


Peter Jacobi wrote:
> a) ISO 8859-n vs ISO-8859-n
> If the information at 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#ISO_8859-1_vs_ISO-8859-1 
> is correct, Python 8859-n 
> codecs do implement the ISO standard charsets ISO 8859-n 
> in the specialized IANA forms ISO-8859-n (and in agreement 
> with the Unicode mapping files). So any difficult C0/C1 
> wording in the original ISO standard can be disregarded.

I have just asked Markus Kuhn about this, who has registered
ISO-8859-16 with IANA. He believes that his registration does
not include control characters (neither C0 nor C1), just as
the ISO standard does not contain any. Wrt. RFC 1345 he points
out that this is not an Internet Standard, but a private
collection of Keld Simonsen, i.e. it is not binding.

Regards,
Martin



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