| Subject: | Request for new alias in Encode::JP |
Not a bug, but a minor enhancement request:
Could we please have "Windows-31J" added as an alias for "cp932".
The Encode::Supported manpage mentions that Windows-31J is the IANA name for cp932, but claims that it is not used, hence (presumably) the alias is not provided by default.
However, I find that Netscape 7.1 does not understand cp932, while it does understand Windows-31J. For example, the attached HTML file does not display correctly in Netscape 7.1, but if I change the charset declared within the HTML file to say WIndows-31J instead of cp932 then it does display OK.
Obviously I can add the alias myself using define_alias(), but in the light of the above, I think it would be helpful if the alias was provided by Encode itself.
The following patch (against Encode-2.01) does this:
--- JP/JP.pm.orig 2004-05-25 17:27:30.000000000 +0100
+++ JP/JP.pm 2004-06-21 13:44:04.809571800 +0100
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
= ISO-2022-JP with JIS X 0212-1990
support. See below
MacJapanese Shift JIS + Apple vendor mappings
- cp932 Code Page 932
+ cp932 /\bwindows-31j$/i Code Page 932
= Shift JIS + MS/IBM vendor mappings
jis0201-raw JIS0201, raw format
jis0208-raw JIS0201, raw format
--- lib/Encode/Alias.pm.orig 2004-05-25 17:27:26.000000000 +0100
+++ lib/Encode/Alias.pm 2004-06-21 13:35:18.373860400 +0100
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@
define_alias( qr/\bujis$/i => '"euc-jp"' );
define_alias( qr/\bshift.*jis$/i => '"shiftjis"' );
define_alias( qr/\bsjis$/i => '"shiftjis"' );
+ define_alias( qr/\bwindows-31j$/i => '"cp932"' );
# for Encode::KR
define_alias( qr/\beuc.*kr$/i => '"euc-kr"' );
define_alias( qr/\bkr.*euc$/i => '"euc-kr"' );
--- lib/Encode/Supported.pod.orig 2003-09-24 01:36:26.000000000 +0100
+++ lib/Encode/Supported.pod 2004-06-21 13:41:11.760080600 +0100
@@ -664,7 +664,8 @@
that Microsoft shouldn't have used JIS as part of the name
in the first place.
-Unambiguous name: C<CP932>. C<IANA> name (not used?): C<Windows-31J>.
+Unambiguous name: C<CP932>. C<IANA> name (also used by Mozilla, and
+provided as an alias by Encode): C<Windows-31J>.
Encode separately supports C<Shift_JIS> and C<cp932>.
End of Patch.
- Steve
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