Re: [MacPerl-Modules] XML::Parser: support for native Mac (Roman) character set

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

At 2:17 PM -0500 12/6/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 18.24 +0000 1999.12.06, Bart Lateur wrote:
>>On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 09:52:21 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>
>>>At 11.28 +0000 1999.12.06, Bart Lateur wrote:
>>>>Huh, yeah. There is a textfile included with the module, called
>>>>"IANA-assigned-character-sets". The name used in this is "macintosh", or
>>>>"mac". I think that name is a bit Western-centric, almost colonial.
>>>
>>>Perhaps, but if it is the assigned name, I see no reason not to use it.
>>
>><grumpy>Yes, dad.</grumpy>
>
>Hehehe.
>
>It is a bad name, but you want to be inoperable with other parsers and
>such.  Maybe we can get IANA to accept /macroman/i (they are
>case-insensitive, right?) as an alias ... ?


I think Chris meant 'inter-operable', not inoperable, right?

Meanwhile, Macro Man was last seen in Seattle, where he underwent a 
personal transformation along with many others, and now goes by 
"Macro Possum" ...

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- Bruce

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