I18N-ISSUE-370: IANA Character Sets registry

I18N-ISSUE-370: IANA Character Sets registry

http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/370

Raised by: Addison Phillips
On product: 

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2014JulSep/0025.html

Comment from Martin Duerst:

This is a Last Call comment on 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-encoding-20140603/.

The statement
"Historically encodings and their specifications (if any) were kept 
track of by the IANA Character Sets registry. This specification renders 
that registry obsolete."
and potentially other sweeping statements in this spec have to be 
conditioned carefully so that they do not look like they affect other 
protocols such as electronic mail, where e.g. the distinction between 
true 7-bit US-ASCII and other encodings is crucial.

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2014 04:02:01 UTC