Re: gettext-0.10.36 Japanese PO file

[Iida Yosiaki]

>...the name SJIS is
>1) more easy to spell correctly by users (no hyphen/underscore
>confusion),
>2) supported by both glibc and GNU libiconv,
>3) more customary in other Unixes (HP-UX, OSF/1).
>This is why this name is allowed in PO files.

And the name of the codeset which is a part of locale name.

I have not seen any standard or specification of NAMES OF
codesets (not themselves), unlike name of charsets.
I see that SJIS is more widely accepted as a part of locale
name, than Shift_JIS, but somehow, Shift_JIS is used as part
of Japanese PO file name for gettext.

I recommend Shift_JIS as value of charset in PO file,
which is handled by PO translator occasionally.
I recommend SJIS as part of locale name, which many end users
may want to use.
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  iida