Registration of new charset CESU-8

Charset name: CESU-8

Charset aliases: csCESU-8

Suitability for use in MIME text: No

Published specification(s):
   Unicode Technical Report #26
   "Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-bit (CESU-8)"
   http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr26

ISO 10646 equivalency table: See specification.

Additional information:
   CESU-8 is an 8-bit Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16 (CESU) that
   is intended for internal use within systems processing Unicode in order
to
   provide an ASCII-compatible 8-bit encoding that is similar to UTF-8 but
   preserves UTF-16 binary collation. Data encoded in CESU-8 should only be
   exchanged when it is labeled as such in a higher-level protocol or is
   agreed upon in an API definition.

Person & email address to contact for further information:
   Toby Phipps
   tphipps@peoplesoft.com

   Jianping Yang
   jianping.yang@oracle.com

   Nobuyoshi Mori
   nobuyoshi.mori@sap.com

Intended usage: LIMITED USE

Received on Wednesday, 2 January 2002 10:21:19 UTC