- From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:40:56 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- cc: "'WEBDAV Mailing List'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jim Whitehead wrote: > Yesterday I attended a BOF on character set issues at which Harald > Alvestrand gave a presentation on the proposed IETF policy for character > set issues. Although this has not yet been approved, it appears likely > that the policy will involve supporting UTF-8 encoding of ISO 10646 > character set information, along with language tagging such information > using RFC 1766 language tagging. The most recent draft of this policy is > draft-alvestrand-charset-policy-00.txt available in the internet-drafts > directory at ds.internic.net. > > Also at this BOF I was introduced to just how contentious these issues an > be, and how carefully i18n requirements must be worded. > > As a result, I propose that our requirements document simply reference the > (emerging) IETF charset policy, making the requirement something like, > "Since web distributed authoring occurs in a multi-lingual environment, > text data which is intended for human use must conform to the IETF > Character Set Policy." Very good! Regards, Martin.
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