Charset name length(s)

Bruce Lilly blilly at erols.com
Mon Dec 13 06:39:09 CET 2004


On Sun December 12 2004 22:52, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> Could explain the connection Bruce sees between the limit on
> the length on descriptors used in writing MIB modules and
> the tags used for identifying character sets?  I thought I
> understood MIB compiler issuess fairly well, but I seem
> to be missing something here, as I just can't see how the
> MIB compiler constraints are relevant.
> 
> Randy

Briefly, charsets are specified by printer MIBs (RFC 3805,
formerly 1759).  Those charsets have names beginning with
"cs". More information is at the top of the IANA charsets
registry
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets


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