RE: Change to charset registry for "ECMA-cyrillic" (updated) (char-set)

IANA <iana@iana.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> Please let the IANA know if this
> paragraph should be added to the registry:
>
> NOTE: The description of this charset in RFC 1345 is INCORRECT.  The only
> correct and authoritative description of this charset is the registration
> document in the ISO registry, a scan of which appears at the URL given
> above.

Paul wrote on ietf-charsets:

: I purposely did *not* ask for that in the registry because nothing in 
: the new registration indicates anything about RFC 1345. There are 
: other know problems with RFC 1345, but it will take quite some time 
: to resolve them. Until then, we should not be confusing folks reading 
: the registry who haven't read RFC 1345.

I don't have strong feelings either way, I just thought it would be helpful to
warn people that RFC 1345 is wrong.  I guess other people on ietf-charsets can
express their opinions.

But have you fixed the typo in the alias name, which should be KOI8-E and not
KO18-E?

MS

Received on Monday, 9 February 2004 14:23:49 UTC