Re: Registration of new charset "UTF-16"

• From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
• Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:01:12 +0900
• To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>
• Cc: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, erik@netscape.com, ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp, Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp
• Message-id: <199805180356.MAA11373@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

At 09:04 98/05/15 -0700, Chris Newman wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 1998, MURATA Makoto wrote:
> > I would propose to revise the sentence as below: 
> > 
> > 	This character set is not permitted for use with MIME text/* media 
> > 	types.  However, the MIME-like mechanism of HTTP may use this 
> > 	character set for text/*.
> 
> That sounds reasonable.

Yes indeed.

Something else that should be added to the registration information
is that UTF-16 always should refer to the newest version of Unicode/
ISO 10646. This has been discussed on the unicore list, but not here,
but it is very crucial.

Regards,   Martin.

--Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)

Received on Monday, 18 May 1998 15:05:15 UTC