Re: Fwd: UTF-16 from Harald Alvestrand on 1998-07-24 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from July to September 1998)

From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:56:34 +0200
To: MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
Cc: Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp, murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp, hiura@bakabon.Eng.Sun.COM
Message-id: <3.0.2.32.19980724165634.0165b420@127.0.0.1>

At 15:57 23.07.98 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote:
>Could you tell me if UTF-16 is accepted or not?  
>
>RFC2376 (text/xml and application/xml) already mentions UTF-16 and the 
>BOM.  I am afraid that confusion and incompatibility problems will arise 
>unless we register UTF-16 in IANA very soon.

Not accepted. I do not detect consensus about whether the BOM is
mandatory in all cases including very short strings or not.

                   Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no


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