- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 10:31:56 +0200
- To: Andr'e PIRARD <PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be>, "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921@mcimail.com>, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu, ietf@cnri.reston.va.us, WG-CHAR@rare.nl, Multi-byte Code Issues <ISO10646@JHUVM.rare.nl>
Andr'e PIRARD writes: > The _most_important_point_ is that a single common representation code > be defined _for_the_line_ (suiting the purpose, namely to cover all national > languages in one single way) and that people be instructed that every bit > of text should travel in that code on the wire, whatever_the_protocol_is. I agree to most of what Andre '' is saying and I have an additional point here: that the single common representation code should be something that can be handled by existing software and hardware, because it will take a long time before the conversion software is installed on all machines, or even a large share of the installed base. Also I would like to emphasis the need for world-wide solutions. This would mean that ISO 8859-1 would not be a good candidate, we need something ASCII based (or even with a smaller repertoire than ASCII to cover the problems with EBCDIC and national ISO 646 variants). I have proposed such a solution in RFC1345. Keld --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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