Re: Registration of new charset BOCU-1

From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:17:05 -0700 To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org> Message-id: <3D406AD1.4080802@jtcsv.com> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 5 June 2006 15:10:53 GMT

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> The approver has a hard time seeing that the added value over SCSU and 
> UTF-8 is enough to be "significant".

Mark replied to this.

> Is the Unicode Consortium considering adding BOCU-1 to its specifications?

It thought it sufficiently significant to add a reference to BOCU
into the SCSU spec http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr6/
where it is mentioned with the same advantages over SCSU that Mark listed.

markus