Re: _DefaultStringEncoding

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Pete French wrote:

> > 1) Why are the possible values of GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING in the
> >    range { "NSISOLatin1StringEncoding", 
> > "NSJapaneseEUCStringEncoding", ... }
> >    and not the widely known and standardized names
> >          { "ISO-8859-1", "EUC-JP", ... }
> >    ? This makes it needlessly hard for users.
>
> Those *are* the widely known and standardised names. Set by the
> OpenStep standard and used on all OpenStep based systems (as far
> as I know). The ones you quote are somebody elses standard and nothing
> to do with OpenStep.

I think we could probably accept both for GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING. We 
already, in fact, have a table internally (in Unicode.m) that maintains 
the correspondence between the two.