- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:31:20 +0900 (JST)
- To: hastings@cp10.es.xerox.coM (Tom Hastings)
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
> The following entry in the charset registry has an incorrect alias
> (both the March and November versions).
Wrong.
> See ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
>
>
> Name: ISO-10646-Unicode-Latin1
> MIBenum: 1003
> Source: ISO Latin-1 subset of Unicode. Basic Latin and Latin-1
> Supplement = collections 1 and 2. See ISO 10646,
> Appendix A. See RFC 1815.
> Alias: csUnicodeLatin1
> Alias: ISO-10646
>
>
> The Alias should definitely NOT be 'ISO-10646, since this charset is
> the Latin1 subset of ISO 10646, not ISO 10646 itself.
Read RFC 1815.
> Source: ISO Latin-1 subset of Unicode. Basic Latin and Latin-1
> Supplement = collections 1 and 2. See ISO 10646,
> Appendix A. See RFC 1815.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Of course, considering the poor interoperability of ISO 10646
that the interoperability with pure ASCII only is assurred,
ISO-10646 which covers all the Latin 1 characters is a little
too wide.
But, it is a lot better than saying ISO-10646 covers all the
possible ISO 10646 characters, which is not well defined at all.
Masataka Ohta
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Received on Thursday, 18 December 1997 11:51:03 UTC