- From: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 10:50:10 +0900
- To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp, Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp
In message "Re: Registration of new charset "UTF-16"", Chris Newman wrote...
> The registration needs to label this as "not permitted for use with MIME
> text/* media types".
It is my understanding that IANA is mererely for registering charset
values. Detailed information should appear elsewhere. Since none of
the registration for EBCDIC, fixed-width EUC, UCS-4, UCS-2 mentions
text/* media types, I would hesitate to incorporate such information.
MIME RFC's do mention the CRLF rule, which prohibits the use of UTF-16
for the transfer of UTF-16 text via e-mail.
Below is extracted from "CHARACTER SETS" at
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
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Name: ISO-10646-UCS-2
MIBenum: 1000
Source: the 2-octet Basic Multilingual Plane, aka Unicode
this needs to specify network byte order: the standard
does not specify (it is a 16-bit integer space)
Alias: csUnicode
Name: ISO-10646-UCS-4
MIBenum: 1001
Source: the full code space. (same comment about byte order,
these are 31-bit numbers.Alias: csUCS4
[Wed, 13 May 1998 10:39:43 +0900]
Makoto
Fuji Xerox Information Systems
Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231
E-mail: murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp
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Received on Thursday, 14 May 1998 06:41:34 UTC