- From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:45:41 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>, MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>, ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp, Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Erik van der Poel wrote: > Just a couple of minor points: > > We should *prohibit* sending out little-endian when the charset label says > "utf-16". The little endian folks are welcome to register their own charset > name if they wish to do so. I concur with this opinion. I don't want to see a repeat of the TIFF mess where there are two incompatible endian variants and interoperability problems plus inferior user interfaces result. "Avoid alternate representations" is a good design principle to follow (see draft-newman-protocol-design-01.txt). - Chris --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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