Hi, The charset name limit of 40 is _only_ for the "cs..." Alias required for the MIBenum (numeric) value for the IANA Charset MIB. Here's the relevant quote from page 4 of RFC 2978: "All charsets MUST be assigned a name that provides a display string for the associated "MIBenum" value defined below. These "MIBenum" values are defined by and used in the Printer MIB [RFC-1759]. Such names MUST begin with the letters "cs" and MUST contain no more than 40 characters (including the "cs" prefix) chosen from from the printable subset of US-ASCII." The limit in the registry itself of all charset names to 40 characters has been there for years as a comment, so I suppose that's the rule that IANA _thinks_ they're enforcing (despite Frank's examples). Cheers, - Ira > > > > > The longest charset permitted is 40 > > > > Really ? I only looked into the IANA registry, not in the RfC: > > Me too: there is a note right at the top of the registry that > says the maximum size is 40, which I (foolishly) relied on :-). > > > > Extended_UNIX_Code_Fixed_Width_for_Japanese > > ....5...10....5...20....5...30....5...40....5 > > Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese > > > > Okay, the latter has a decent EUC-JP preferred MIME alias, and > > the former is a DBCS. > > In any case, the text we chose on this thread works fine: the > limit may be more than 50 characters and it may be far less > than that too (there might be *NO* room with a sufficiently > perverse set of choices). > > Addison > _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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