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RE: Registration of a new charset

From: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
To: ned.freed@mrochek.com
Cc: simon.tardell@smarttrust.com, ietf-charsets@iana.org
Message-id: <200109262154.OAA10466@birdie.sybase.com>
See:

ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ETSI/GSM0338.TXT

for the best sense that we (myself, Kent Karlsson, and
Markus Kuhn) were able to make of trying to map this
to Unicode.

GSM 0338 is a very funny animal that departs significantly
from the way JTC1/SC2 builds character sets. It overloads 
characters by glyph shape, uses NULL, and has an escape
mechanism, using ESCAPE in a way noncompatible with ISO 2022,
to create a double-byte escape encoding for extra characters.

It doesn't seem advisable to me to suggest that it would
be appropriate for MIME text encoding.

--Ken
Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2001 17:55:32 GMT

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