- From: David Goldsmith <David_Goldsmith@taligent.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:03:48 -0800
- To: unicored@unicode.org, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
New versions of documents I previously posted to the ietf-822 and unicored mailing lists are now available as Internet Drafts (they should be at your local RFC repository now or shortly). The ASCII versions should be available first, with Postscript versions to follow. The documents are: draft-goldsmith-mime-unicode-00.txt (or .ps) draft-goldsmith-mime-utf7-00.txt (or .ps) Respectively, they specify the general use of Unicode as a MIME charset, and a specific new transformation format of Unicode that is designed for use with Internet mail and news. On the good advice of many people involved with the IETF, I've changed the documents to specify Unicode 1.1 instead of ISO/IEC-10646. This is partly due to the greater level of specificity in Unicode 1.1 as to character properties and handling of combining forms. Also, since ISO 10646 is an international standard, several people felt that the IETF would want to take a more deliberate and careful approach to standardizing its usage on the Internet. These new proposals were made primarily to get a reasonable charset defined quickly so that the Internet community can start to gain experience with Unicode (and 10646), which is the usual Internet approach to assimilating new technology. To that end, these proposals should be viewed as experimental, and they are intended to be submitted as Experimental RFCs. This experience will help determine the right course for the 10646 effort. At some point in the future, a set of 10646 charset names should be defined for use with MIME; they may or may not refer to the same encoding as these documents. Thanks, everyone, for your help and suggestions so far. ---------------------------- David Goldsmith david_goldsmith@taligent.com Taligent, Inc. 10201 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014-2233 --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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