Re: Registration of new charset BOCU-1 from Markus Scherer on 2002-07-25 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from July to September 2002)

From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:17:05 -0700
To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Message-id: <3D406AD1.4080802@jtcsv.com>

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> The approver has a hard time seeing that the added value over SCSU and 
> UTF-8 is enough to be "significant".

Mark replied to this.

> Is the Unicode Consortium considering adding BOCU-1 to its specifications?

It thought it sufficiently significant to add a reference to BOCU
into the SCSU spec http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr6/
where it is mentioned with the same advantages over SCSU that Mark listed.

markus

Received on Thursday, 25 July 2002 17:23:03 UTC