[Prev: BOTLINKS] | [Resources][TOC] | [Next: CHARSETCONVERTERS]

# CHARSETALIASES

- Syntax
- Description
- Default Setting
- Resource Variables
- Examples
- Version
- See Also

## Syntax

Envariable

  N/A.

Element

  `<CHARSETALIASES>`
  charset-name; alias, ...
  ...
  `</CHARSETALIASES>`

Command-line Option

  N/A.

## Description

CHARSETALIASES defines aliases for character set names. For example, the charset `iso-8859-1` is also known by `latin1`. Hence, `latin1` is an alias for `iso-8859-1` and can be defined as follows:

    <CharsetAliases>
    iso-8859-1; latin1
    </CharsetAliases>

Each line of the CHARSETALIASES element defines an alias definition. The syntax of an alias definition is as follows,

    charset-name; alias, ...

i.e. the character set name followed by a semi-colon followed by a comma separated list of aliases.

Specifying a character set multiple times is allowed. For example, the following are equivalent:

    <CharsetAliases>
    iso-8859-1; latin1, l1, iso_8859_1
    </CharsetAliases>

    <CharsetAliases>
    iso-8859-1; latin1
    iso-8859-1; l1
    iso-8859-1; iso_8859_1
    </CharsetAliases>

If the same alias is specified for two different charsets, then the last one defined is use. For example, if the following is defined,

    <CharsetAliases>
    iso-8859-1; x-foo
    koi8-u; x-foo
    </CharsetAliases>

then `x-foo` will be an alias for `koi8-u`.

When MHonArc invokes CHARSETCONVERTERS filters, MHonArc maps aliases to real names before invoking the filters. Therefore, it is not necessary for a filter to know all possible names for a given character set.

If the `override` attribute is specified for CHARSETALIASES, then any previous settings will be cleared. Otherwise, each occurance of CHARSETALIASES will augment existing settings.

## Default Setting

    <CharsetAliases>
    us-ascii;	    ascii
    us-ascii;	    ansi_x3.4-1968
    us-ascii;	    iso646
    us-ascii;	    iso646-us
    us-ascii;	    iso646.irv:1991
    us-ascii;	    cp367
    us-ascii;	    ibm367
    us-ascii;	    csascii
    us-ascii;	    iso-ir-6
    us-ascii;	    us
    iso-8859-1;	    latin1
    iso-8859-1;	    l1
    iso-8859-1;	    iso_8859_1
    iso-8859-1;	    iso_8859-1:1987
    iso-8859-1;	    iso8859-1
    iso-8859-1;	    iso8859_1
    iso-8859-1;	    8859-1
    iso-8859-1;	    8859_1
    iso-8859-1;	    cp819
    iso-8859-1;	    ibm819
    iso-8859-1;	    x-mac-latin1
    iso-8859-1;	    iso-ir-100
    iso-8859-2;	    latin2
    iso-8859-2;	    l2
    iso-8859-2;	    iso_8859_2
    iso-8859-2;	    iso_8859-2:1987
    iso-8859-2;	    iso8859-2
    iso-8859-2;	    iso8859_2
    iso-8859-2;	    8859-2
    iso-8859-2;	    8859_2
    iso-8859-2;	    iso-ir-101
    iso-8859-3;	    latin3
    iso-8859-3;	    l3
    iso-8859-3;	    iso_8859_3
    iso-8859-3;	    iso_8859-3:1988
    iso-8859-3;	    iso8859-3
    iso-8859-3;	    iso8859_3
    iso-8859-3;	    8859-3
    iso-8859-3;	    8859_3
    iso-8859-3;	    iso-ir-109
    iso-8859-4;	    latin4
    iso-8859-4;	    l4
    iso-8859-4;	    iso_8859_4
    iso-8859-4;	    iso_8859-4:1988
    iso-8859-4;	    iso8859-4
    iso-8859-4;	    iso8859_4
    iso-8859-4;	    8859-4
    iso-8859-4;	    8859_4
    iso-8859-4;	    iso-ir-110
    iso-8859-5;	    iso_8859-5:1988
    iso-8859-5;	    cyrillic
    iso-8859-5;	    iso-ir-144
    iso-8859-6;	    iso_8859-6:1987
    iso-8859-6;	    arabic
    iso-8859-6;	    asmo-708
    iso-8859-6;	    ecma-114
    iso-8859-6;	    iso-ir-127
    iso-8859-7;	    iso_8859-7:1987
    iso-8859-7;	    greek
    iso-8859-7;	    greek8
    iso-8859-7;	    ecma-118
    iso-8859-7;	    elot_928
    iso-8859-7;	    iso-ir-126
    iso-8859-8;	    iso-8859-8-i
    iso-8859-8;	    iso_8859-8:1988
    iso-8859-8;	    hebrew
    iso-8859-8;	    iso-ir-138
    iso-8859-9;	    latin5
    iso-8859-9;	    l5
    iso-8859-9;	    iso_8859_9
    iso-8859-9;	    iso-8859_9:1989
    iso-8859-9;	    iso8859-9
    iso-8859-9;	    iso8859_9
    iso-8859-9;	    8859-9
    iso-8859-9;	    8859_9
    iso-8859-9;	    iso-ir-148
    iso-8859-10;	    latin6
    iso-8859-10;	    l6
    iso-8859-10;	    iso_8859_10
    iso-8859-10;	    iso_8859-10:1993
    iso-8859-10;	    iso8859-10
    iso-8859-10;	    iso8859_10
    iso-8859-10;	    8859-10
    iso-8859-10;	    8859_10
    iso-8859-10;	    iso-ir-157
    iso-8859-13;	    latin7 ,l7
    iso-8859-14;	    latin8 ,l8
    iso-8859-15;	    latin9
    iso-8859-15;	    latin0
    iso-8859-15;	    l9
    iso-8859-15;	    l0
    iso-8859-15;	    iso_8859_15
    iso-8859-15;	    iso8859-15
    iso-8859-15;	    iso8859_15
    iso-8859-15;	    8859-15
    iso-8859-15;	    8859_15
    iso-2022-jp;	    iso-2022-jp-1
    utf-8;		    utf8
    cp932;		    shiftjis
    cp932;		    shift_jis
    cp932;		    shift-jis
    cp932;		    x-sjis
    cp932;		    ms_kanji
    cp932;		    csshiftjis
    cp936;		    gbk
    cp936;		    ms936
    cp936;		    windows-936
    cp949:		    euc-kr
    cp949:		    ks_c_5601-1987
    cp949:		    ks_c_5601-1989
    cp949:		    ksc_5601
    cp949:		    iso-ir-149
    cp949:		    windows-949
    cp949:		    ms949
    cp949:		    korean
    cp950;		    windows-950
    cp1250;		    windows-1250
    cp1251;		    windows-1251
    cp1252;		    windows-1252
    cp1253;		    windows-1253
    cp1254;		    windows-1254
    cp1255;		    windows-1255
    cp1256;		    windows-1256
    cp1257;		    windows-1257
    cp1258;		    windows-1258
    koi-0;		    gost-13052
    koi8-e;		    iso-ir-111
    koi8-e;		    ecma-113:1986
    koi8-r;		    cp878
    gost-19768-87;	    ecma-cyrillic
    gost-19768-87;	    ecma-113
    gost-19768-87;	    ecma-113:1988
    big5-eten;	    big5
    big5-eten;	    csbig5
    big5-eten;	    tcs-big5
    big5-eten;	    tcsbig5
    big5-hkscs;	    big5hk
    big5-hkscs;	    big5hkscs
    big5-hkscs;	    hkscs-big5
    big5-hkscs;	    hk-big5
    gb2312;		    gb_2312-80
    gb2312;		    csgb2312
    gb2312;		    hz-gb-2312
    gb2312;		    iso-ir-58
    gb2312;		    euc-cn
    gb2312;		    chinese
    gb2312;		    csiso58gb231280
    macarabic;          apple-arabic
    maccentraleurroman; apple-centeuro
    maccroatian;        apple-croatian
    maccyrillic;        apple-cyrillic
    macgreek;           apple-greek
    machebrew;          apple-hebrew
    macicelandic;       apple-iceland
    macromanian;        apple-romanian
    macroman;           apple-roman
    macthai;            apple-thai
    macturkish;         apple-turkish
    macarabic;          x-mac-arabic
    maccentraleurroman; x-mac-centraleurroman
    maccroatian;        x-mac-croatian
    maccyrillic;        x-mac-cyrillic
    macgreek;           x-mac-greek
    machebrew;          x-mac-hebrew
    macicelandic;       x-mac-icelandic
    macromanian;        x-mac-romanian
    macroman;           x-mac-roman
    macthai;            x-mac-thai
    macturkish;         x-mac-turkish
    </CharsetAliases>

## Resource Variables

N/A

## Examples

CHARSETALIASES is generally useful for resolving "`unknown charset`" warnings that MHonArc generates since some MUAs can specify non-standard names for charsets.

Another use is to fool MHonArc into thinking that data labeled with one charset is actual data in another charset. For example, in some locales, MUAs improperly set the `charset="..."` parameter in text messages. CHARSETALIASES can be used to tell MHonArc to treat the improperly labeled data in another charset during conversion. For example,

    <CharsetAliases>
    iso-8859-8; us-ascii
    </CharsetAliases>

tells MHonArc to treat US-ASCII data as Hebrew.

## Version

2.6.0

## See Also

CHARSETCONVERTERS

[Prev: BOTLINKS] | [Resources][TOC] | [Next: CHARSETCONVERTERS]