Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] iconv bug: LATIN-9

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Kenneth Nellis wrote:
> In iconv when listing all supported encodings (iconv -l), LATIN9 appears
> with a hyphen (LATIN-9), but none of the other LATINs do.

Yes. This is how the names of the encodings have been standardized by the
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), see
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

$ grep -i '^Alias: latin' character-sets
Alias: latin1
Alias: latin2
Alias: latin3
Alias: latin4
Alias: latin5
Alias: latin6
Alias: latin1-2-5
Alias: latin8
Alias: Latin-9
Alias: latin10

> I would think consistency would be desired.  

After reading the arguments in the discussion that started at [1],[2], in 1998,
I only see "latin9" mentioned. I don't see where "Latin-9" comes from. Maybe
it was unintended. But that's the way it is standardized for 12 years now.

Bruno

[1] http://mail.apps.ietf.org/ietf/charsets/msg00466.html
[2] http://mail.apps.ietf.org/ietf/charsets/msg00475.html