Re: Suggested character set policy for the IETF

The "or other character encoding scheme" was added to make it
clear that having an UTF-16 option was allowed. I agree that
in theory, it's superfluous.

There is no requirement in the workshop report that an encoding
scheme be orthogonal to the character set it encodes; indeed, I
would claim that none of the CESes that we know about are.
The workshop plainly wanted to call UTF-8 a CES; if the
definition doesn't say that, the definition is IMHO wrong.
And if UTF-8 is a CES, then UTF-16 is also a CES.

             Harald A

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Received on Thursday, 26 June 1997 14:15:25 UTC