On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Randall Parker wrote:
> Well, to me at least the term character set does not define a mapping or encoding. It just specifies a list of
charactersand their numeric representations or mappings not included.
>
> To say "character set mapping" or "character set encoding" might be more complete. Though I tend to use the term
"codepage" because that's what I've heard the most down thru the years.
>
> If someone here wants to suggest a particular terminology to use I'd
> be happy to adopt it in this list.
codepages are used by the samba folks also, if this helps any ... I never
knew what it meant before, but now that I do, makes perfect sense ...
its like using tuples/fields vs rows/columns :) one is right, the other
is lazy :)