- From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:57:45 -0700
- To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Another question:
Mark quoted the charset name ABNF including
mime-charset-chars = ALPHA / DIGIT /
"!" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "&" /
"'" / "+" / "-" / "^" / "_" /
"`" / "{" / "}" / "~"
This seems overly broad for any kind of identifier, and I know that the current list does not include characters like '{', '}', '#'.
It also looks like any of these can start a charset name, not just ALPHA/DIGIT.
Why is the set of valid characters for charset names so broad, including all kinds of punctuation?
Is there a chance to restrict this set in the future, removing punctuation that is not currently used?
markus
Received on Monday, 22 July 2002 12:03:30 UTC