windows 1256 - another update to review :)

[Shawn Steele]

Please review updates to windows 1256. I used the feedback we had last year for 1252 to guide this request.

Thanks,
Shawn

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Charset name: windows-1256

Charset aliases: (None)

Suitability for use in MIME text:

Yes, windows-1256 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
Content-Type. Note that windows-1256 is an 8-bit charset. Care should
be taken to choose an appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.

Published specification(s):

1) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1256.htm

ISO 10646 equivalency table:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1256.TXT

Additional information:

UTF-8 is preferred to windows-1256 when permissible.

Although not authoritative, the following references may also be of
interest:

Printed mapping table:
Dr. International "Developing International Software, Second Edition",
Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1583-7, 2003, p. 763-767

Microsoft windows extended "best fit" behavior:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit1256.txt

This is an update of an existing registration of this charset. This
charset name is in use.

This charset is also known as Windows Code Page 1256 or cp1256 for
short; these are NOT aliases.

The code page is NOT compatible with the ISO-8859-6 charset.

Person & email address to contact for further information:

Shawn Steele
Email: ***@microsoft.com

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way,
Redmond, WA 98052
U.S.A.