Subj : FTS-5004
To   : Pavel Gulchouck
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Sep 18 2022 09:08 pm

Hey Pavel!

 PG> Some codepages listed in the FTS-5003 is not listed at IANA.

I know.  And whoever came up with that lame idea should be forced to chew on their phoney-baloney LATIN-1 encoding for all time.  :::mutter, mutter, mutter:::

 PG> For example, cp848 which is not known by glibc or IANA,

In glibc it is known as IBM848.  There is no corresponding IANA listing, not even an alias.

 PG> and I first heard about it from this FTS.

Hm.  I think that should be indicative that something is horribly wrong.  Most of the official MSGs coming from that direction appear to be CP866.

 PG> IANA documented koi8-u in internet standard, but we in fido
 PG> should document cp1125 as used in fidonet.

You are more than likely the best person for that task.  For what it's worth I can offer my assistance in the way of proving that it is doable.  I still think a proper IANA aknowledgement would have helped.

As far as I can tell the glibc cp1125 is valid although a proper mapping could be generated just to make sure ... if it ever comes to that.  I have doubts but then again I don't live or operate from there so what the hell do I know about it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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