Re: Fwd: Registration of 6 charsets from Martin J. Duerst on 2000-04-07 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from April to June 2000)

From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 23:35:13 +0900
To: (wrong string) 輯(Bn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Cc: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>, Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>, ietf-charsets@innosoft.com
Message-id: <4.2.0.58.J.20000407233254.03235520@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

Keld - Nobody, neither me, nor Erik, nor Harald, said that
mappability to 10646/Unicode was a requirement.

Regards,  Martin.

At 00/04/07 14:23 +0200, Keld J$B輯(Bn Simonsen wrote:
>I do not think it should be a requirement that new IANA registrations
>be mappable to 10646/Unicode. That would leave the whole of
>the internet in the hands of the Unicode consortium with respect to
>charsets, and that is too much power to give a closed consortium
>over an open network. I hope this is not what is meant.
>
>Keld

Received on Friday, 7 April 2000 11:32:43 UTC