Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

[Rhys Jones]

Hello,

Please forgive a semi-newbie post.

About 18 months ago I patched fs/nls/ to include support for the
Celtic character set, ISO8859-14. I notice that there are still gaps
in nls, specifically in ISO8859 codepages 10 to 13.

The missing codepages are for Nordic/Icelandic (ISO8859-10), Thai
(ISO8859-11), and Baltic Rim (ISO8859-13) languages. I'm still trying
to determine the status of ISO8859-12 at the moment.

Two questions, really. The general one is whether anyone would find
these codepages useful. If they would, I'm willing to provide the
patches in due course. More specifically, can anyone tell me why
ISO8859-10 (Icelandic etc.) is mentioned in Documentation/Configure.help
whilst nls_iso8859-10.c is missing from the fs/nls directory?

Any and all feedback appreciated.

Thanks,
Rhys Jones, Swansea
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Re: Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

[Pierre Rousselet]

Rhys Jones wrote:

> Any and all feedback appreciated.

need for less codepages. Is 8859-1 still useful ?
Why not moving to 8859-15 (and cp1252) ?

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Re: Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <4755.137.44.4.15.981028098.squirrel@www.sucs.swan.ac.uk>
By author:    "Rhys Jones" <linux-kernel@postwales.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
> 
> Please forgive a semi-newbie post.
> 
> About 18 months ago I patched fs/nls/ to include support for the
> Celtic character set, ISO8859-14. I notice that there are still gaps
> in nls, specifically in ISO8859 codepages 10 to 13.
> 
> The missing codepages are for Nordic/Icelandic (ISO8859-10), Thai
> (ISO8859-11), and Baltic Rim (ISO8859-13) languages. I'm still trying
> to determine the status of ISO8859-12 at the moment.
> 
> Two questions, really. The general one is whether anyone would find
> these codepages useful. If they would, I'm willing to provide the
> patches in due course. More specifically, can anyone tell me why
> ISO8859-10 (Icelandic etc.) is mentioned in Documentation/Configure.help
> whilst nls_iso8859-10.c is missing from the fs/nls directory?
> 

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RE: Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

[Nerijus Baliunas]

> About 18 months ago I patched fs/nls/ to include support for the
> Celtic character set, ISO8859-14. I notice that there are still gaps
> in nls, specifically in ISO8859 codepages 10 to 13.
> 
> The missing codepages are for Nordic/Icelandic (ISO8859-10), Thai
> (ISO8859-11), and Baltic Rim (ISO8859-13) languages. I'm still trying
> to determine the status of ISO8859-12 at the moment.
> 
> Two questions, really. The general one is whether anyone would find
> these codepages useful. If they would, I'm willing to provide the
> patches in due course. More specifically, can anyone tell me why
> ISO8859-10 (Icelandic etc.) is mentioned in Documentation/Configure.help
> whilst nls_iso8859-10.c is missing from the fs/nls directory?

Hello,

ISO8859-13 is used in Latvia and Lithuania, so it would be useful.
I don't think ISO8859-12 is really used, it is reserved for
Devanagari (Indian), but I think they will use unicode eventually...
So it would be nice to add support for ISO8859-10 and ISO8859-13
at least.

Regards,
Nerijus

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