Re: EUC-JP and the Yen sign

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:

> What authorities do your sources cite?  The IANA's character
> assignment table agrees with Bruno Haible: it cites OSF, Unix
> International, and Unix System Laboratories Pacific all in saying that
> the name "EUC-JP" refers to an encoding that uses US-ASCII for the
> first 128 characters.  If you want an encoding that has a Yen sign at
> 0x5C, you must use a different MIME encoding.

I don't want an encoding which is following some standard, it must
follow common practice.  In both cases I had it once that the
backslash was used and sure enough I got complaints that it's not
correct.  I have not the slightest interest in continuing this game.
Either a definite answer is found or nothing changes.

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