Re: LYNX-DEV Character set support 5

[Андрей Чернов]

On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Michael Sokolov wrote:

> GOST Alternative Cyrillic Character Set (Alternative should probably be
> shortened to Alt, or the name will be too long), but it's often called "DOS
> Cyrillic encoding" in vernacular. GOST specifies two character sets, Main
> and Alternative. Main was written without any regard for pre-existing
> character sets, and therefore it's not very popular. Alternative, on the
> other hand, is really the IBM PC character set with some Western European
> and Greek characters replaced by Cyrillic letters. It's very popular (in
> fact, almost universal) on IBM PC and compatibles running DOS (hence the
> vernacular name).
>    What I'm not sure about is the MIME name. One HTTP server that uses this
> character set returns "ibm866" in the response, but I doubt whether it's
> the official name. Not only it looks strange ("ibm866" rather than
> "cp866"), but also that same server uses other character sets and returns
> names that I know to be wrong. Does anyone know where can I find a complete
> list of all MIME character set names registered with IANA? I want to find
> out the correct MIME name for this character set before I contribute the
> table to avoid the confusion and counterproductivity caused by a wrong name
> included in Lynx.

See http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/koi8.html here is an answers of most
your questions about Russian charsets related i18n standards. 

>    BTW, speaking of servers returning wrong character set names, is there
> any way to tell Lynx that a certain unknown charset name is an alias for a
> known one?

Better way is to make your server to work according standards then hacking
lynx to accept home-made names.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
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http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/

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