site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Quinn wrote: The IANA charsets document: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets> It's unfortunate that "MacRoman" wasn't one of the aliases for this. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1345.txt?number=1345> <http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT> There's also quite of bit of info here: <http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/Readme.txt> ___________________________________________________________ Ricky A. Sharp mailto:rsharp@instantinteractive.com Instant Interactive(tm) http://www.instantinteractive.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Macnetworkprog mailing list (Macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macnetworkprog/site_archiver%40lists.... At 17:36 +0100 23/1/08, Stephane Sudre wrote: the Message.Framework (which is deprecated, I know) sometimes sends e-mail with the MACINTOSH encoding. Is it supposed to be equivalent to Mac Roman as it looks like to be? indicates that "macintosh", "mac", and "csMacintosh" are all names for the encoding defined in RFC1345. RFC1345, in turn, references the Unicode 1.0 standard. I wasn't able to find a copy of the 1.0 standard, or find an appropriate reference within the later standards. Regardless, you should be able to use the table from RFC1345 to confirm that this is MacRoman (once you figure out how to read the table which, I must admit, I found to be challenging :-). Another good source of info is unicode.org. For example, here's the MacRoman table listed out with Unicode entity names: If that table matches RFC1345, then that means these encodings are equivalent. Hmm, the RFC1345 doc includes '??' for a few entries in its table. The unicode.org document contains character info for all 256 values. You'll be able to thus compare the vast majority of characters, but not all. It lists all the various "legacy" macintosh encodings. I don't see the mention of an encoding of "macintosh" anywhere; it only refers to "roman" (which is also the default encoding of those legacy systems). Having said all of this, I'm almost 100% sure that "macintosh" and "macroman" are identical. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com