Re: names of ISO 8859 encodings

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi Bruno & Alex,

At 2024-12-14T01:37:16+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 01:23:09AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Commit 3ed1de0ddccb42bae4151c7225d3fddeab04ff43 should better
> > be reverted, IMO. The ISO organization or their *standards* can
> > be renamed to whatever names; what matters here is what the
> > *encoding* is commonly referred to.
> > 
> > The *encoding* names are standardized by IANA:
> > https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
> > The first ISO 8859 encoding there has the name
> >   ISO-8859-1
> > or
> >   ISO_8859-1
> > and the first among these is the preferred MIME name. So, please,
> > in encoding names:
> >   * revert the ISO -> ISO/IEC change,
> >   * change the space after ISO to a dash/hyphen-minus.
> > 
> > Likewise (partially) for commit d5e5db91ece5955b21ae1aedc03ba1d56d3cf423.

Oy vey.  Helge Kreutzmann submitted a similar bug report to groff and I
was planning to make the ISO -> ISO/IEC change to its man pages.

Also your point seems more strident than clear to me as regards the
encoding name.  If I want to refer to character encoding _not_ in the
context of a machine-parsed MIME datum, I trust you're not going to tell
me I need to spell with an obnoxious hyphen-minus or underscore before
the standard number ("8859")...?

I would then wonder why I am not equally compelled to write "ISO-9000".
Or, to name a standard that comes up in documents to which I contribute,
"ISO-6429" (better known to some as ECMA-48, and yes, ECMA standards
routinely get the hyphen-minus).

> I'm okay with reverting those if there's consensus.  Would you mind
> CCing the interested parties (e.g., the people that requested that
> change, and anybody that participated in the discussion)?
> 
> (I've CCed them now, anyway.)

Thanks for looping Helge in.

Regards,
Branden

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