Re: Registration of new charsets

• From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
• Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:44:22 +0900 (JST)
• To: murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp (MURATA Makoto)
• Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
• Message-id: <199912190044.JAA04952@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>

Murata san;

> In 3.5 of RFC 2278, there are usage and implementation requirements.
> 
> >   A charset should therefore be registered ONLY if it adds significant
> >   functionality that is valuable to a large community, OR

> I think that proposed charsets should be explicitly marked as legacy

You seems to be saying that the entire IT community of Japan
is not so large or JIS is not valuable to the community.

Maybe. :-)

But,

> (they are new, but extensions of legacy encodings).

FYI, ISO-2022-JP is already included in JIS X 0208:1997.

						Masataka Ohta

Received on Wednesday, 22 December 1999 10:20:50 UTC