Re: Registration of new charset: UTF-32 from Keld Jørn Simonsen on 2001-05-26 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:15:32 +0200
To: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>, ietf-charsets@iana.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
Message-id: <20010526161532.A7206@rap.rap.dk>

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:50:00PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:52:17AM +0900, Martin Duerst wrote:
> > At 19:15 01/05/20 +0200, Keld J$BS(Bn Simonsen wrote:
> > >You really should not do this. UCS-4 is the canonical representation of
> > >10646. UTF-32 would be misleading, as the UCS-4 is not a transformation 
> > >format,
> > >but the "real thing".
> > 
> > Which one? Little endian? Big endian? Or some cris-cross version?
> 
> The default endianness of UCS-4 is wee defined.

I meant:

The default endianness of UCS-4 is well defined.

Keld

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