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Re: Registration of new charset BOCU-1

From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:06:18 +0200
To: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>, charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Message-id: <52798980.1029330378@localhost>

you didn't answer the other half of my question:

> Are there applications (not toolkits) today that have committed
> to converting to use of BOCU-1?

If Unicode was to replace SCSU with BOCU-1, thus keeping the set of Unicode 
encodings that "someone" recomments constant, I wouldn't worry.....but 
Unicode is still sticking with SCSU.

(that said, unless someone else feels unhappy about adding One More 
Encoding, I think it's probably not a big deal to approve it.)

                       Harald



--On 25. juli 2002 14:17 -0700 Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com> 
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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