- From: Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmith@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:27:54 -0700
- To: IETF Charsets Mailing List <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
- Cc: Rick McGowan <rmcgowan@apple.com>
The Unicode Consortium Technical Committee (UTC) has asked me to look into what would be involved in deprecating the character set titled "unicode-1-1". This character set was registered in conjunction with RFC 1641, "Using Unicode with MIME". This 16-bit character set is obsolete because it is based on an older version of Unicode which the UTC would prefer people not use. The preferred charsets that applications should use are UTF-16, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE. Their definition and usage recommendations are in the Internet Draft draft-hoffman-utf16-02.txt. Is it possible to deprecate or invalidate an existing, registered character set? What process would be involved? Should we be looking at some other process to discourage use of "unicode-1-1"? Thank you in advance, -- Deborah Goldsmith Manager, International Toolbox Group Apple Computer, Inc. goldsmith@apple.com
Received on Thursday, 22 April 1999 02:37:00 UTC