93985 - need converter for ISO-8859-16

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P4)

Description

[Frank Tang]

ISO published ISO-8859-16 recently. We need to support the uniconde converter.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

more info 
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Dear all,

ISO has just published ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001 (Latin-10, East European
Languages, with Euro, Romanian "comma below" characters, etc.),
essentially intended as a modernized version of ISO 8859-2:

  
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=33428&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3=

I've made a Unicode mapping table based on the data in the FDIS

  http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso8859/fdis8859-16-en.pdf

which is now officially available on

  ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-16.TXT

Please compare with and update your mapping table collections.

Please add ISO 8859-16 to your character set name registries on

  ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/DOCS/registry
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

I do not recommend to actually use ISO 8859-16 for any data exchange
over the Internet, since UTF-8 can be used for the same purposes and is
already far more widely implemented. Let's all pray that this will be
the last part of the now well-stirred ISO 8859 alphabet soup.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>


The mapping table is actaully in 

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-16.TXT 

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

Attachment: patch with -Nu

Comment 3

[Andreas Becker]

Switching qa contact to teruko for now.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

move to m9.5

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

roy- can you do a code review for this ?

Comment 6

[Roy Yokoyama]

Comment on attachment 44853 [details] [diff] [review]
patch with -Nu

/r=yokoyama

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Comment on attachment 44853 [details] [diff] [review]
patch with -Nu

rs=blizzard except that it uses an NPL license.

Comment 8

[Frank Tang]

check in except module file. Wait for Mac project file change first. 

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

mark it fixed

Comment 10

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].