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Re: dg-error vs. i18n?


On Oct 24 07:05, paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 23:25, Charles Wilson
> <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > That's interesting. I had thought "ascii" was a fairly common encoding
> > name; I know I've seen both 'encoding="ascii"' and 'encoding="us-ascii"'
> > in XML documents. ?Maybe we (cygwin) should add an explicit
> > plain-old-ascii encoding name?
> 
> For XML, the list of encoding values is specified by IANA.
> 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

This is something we should head to in the long run.  For the time being
I'd prefer we stick to "ASCII".


Corinna

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