- From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:21:06 -0700
- To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
McDonald, Ira wrote: > Which reminds me that the recently published RFC 3454 (December 2002) > is based on Unicode/3.2 (of course). But there are (I believe) some > new characters registered in Unicode/4.0. Also, Markus Kuhn's good > point recently on Linux I18N list that the character class of > SOFT-HYPHEN just changed in Unicode/4.0 (which affects Stringprep). None of this affects the definition of UTF-8. The reference to Unicode 4 is for the definition of the character encoding scheme and related definitions. Unicode 4 is useful because 1. it will be a book soon and 2. its description of all of the core UTFs is much clearer and explicit than before. > Since a lot of IETF WGs are doing Stringprep profiles, it would be > desirable that they were referencing Unicode/4.0 - thus new exclusions > tables are needed, for example. Only for new profiles, right? markus -- Opinions expressed here may not reflect my company's positions unless otherwise noted.
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