- From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:17:09 -0700
- To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Martin Duerst wrote: > At 08:31 02/07/23 -0700, Markus Scherer wrote: >> I further propose to otherwise leave the registration text as is and >> proceed with the actual registration. > > I still think it's a bad idea to advertise a character encoding > that we clearly discourage. I don't see that "limited use" means that we "clearly discourage" a charset, and I would like to argue that a short list of features is not an outrageous amount of advertising. BOCU-1 was not created and proposed for registration to then be discouraged, but to encourage users to use a Unicode encoding when they would otherwise choose a legacy encoding just for its compactness (aside from database applications). As I said before, the SCSU registration has a similar list of features, and no one thought it unwise then. It is much easier for someone to figure out if a charset is appropriate for some use if one need not follow a URL. I made this argument two weeks ago and there was no response at all, so I assumed that this was all acceptable. I would like to ask again, What do others think? What does the approver think? markus
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