- From: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 07:39:18 -0700
- To: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>, erik@netscape.com, ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp, Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp
At 03:29 PM 5/18/98 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote: >Here is the revised verion of the proposal. Have we reached a consensus? > >Makoto >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >We propose to register UTF-16 as a charset in IANA. > >UTF-16 should be sent in network byte order (big-endian). However, >recipients should be able to handle both big-endian and little-endian. Apologies if this is already addressed somewhere. I think it might be good to add the lines: If UTF-16 is sent in little-endian byte order, it MUST be prefixed with a BOM to allow recipients to determine the byte order. UTF-16 sent in network byte order MAY be prefixed with a BOM. - Dan --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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