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Re: Issue: CHARSET, character sets and charset

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 18:48:11 -0700
To: Paul Hoffman <paulh@imc.org>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <9604081848.aa18578@paris.ics.uci.edu> 
>>>   charset = "US-ASCII"
>>>	| "ISO-8859-1" | "ISO-8859-2" | "ISO-8859-3"
>>>	| "ISO-8859-4" | "ISO-8859-5" | "ISO-8859-6"
>>>	| "ISO-8859-7" | "ISO-8859-8" | "ISO-8859-9"
>>>       | "ISO-2022-JP" | "ISO-2022-JP-2" | "ISO-2022-KR"
>>>       | "UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8"
> 
> Listing these charsets by name seems like a slippery slope to me. For
> example, the brand new RFC 1922 describes ISO-2022-CN and ISO-2022-CN-EXT,
> which will probably appear in the IANA registry around the same time we get
> this spec out, if not sooner.

This is a chicken and egg issue.  We wouldn't need a list in HTTP if
there were a list of short, charset-friendly, preferred names kept
by IANA.  However, there isn't.


 ...Roy T. Fielding
    Department of Information & Computer Science    (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
    University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425    fax:+1(714)824-4056
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Monday, 8 April 1996 19:03:20 EDT

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