Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-11.txt

Hi Tim,

I read draft-11 just now. The new version is concise, well-written and I 
think is an improvement.

The one comment I had previously that I would still recommend changing 
is the use of "transformation format" as the heading and in the body of 
section 2.1. In our previous conversation, I noted that "UTF" does stand 
for "Unicode Transformation Format", but that name is a historical 
remnant and almost never used.

I looked at Unicode 16.0's text today to ensure I'm in-sync with what 
Unicode says. Section 2.5 [1] of The Unicode Standard is titled 
"Encoding Forms" and discusses the various character encodings defined 
by Unicode. In that section, there is a specific callout about UTF:

     > These are named UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, respectively. The
    “UTF” is a carryover from earlier terminology meaning Unicode (or
    UCS) Transformation Format.

So I guess I would double-down on my earlier comment and suggest using 
"character encoding" or, perhaps, "encoding form" in your document.

Best Regards,

Addison

[1] 
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-2/#G13708

PS> I have blindcopied this message to public-i18n-core@w3.org so that 
our Working Group has a record of it.

-- 
Addison Phillips
Chair (W3C Internationalization WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

On 3/3/2025 10:31 AM, Tim Bray wrote:

> See below. Notable changes:
>
>   * A bunch of editorial changes, mostly from Addison Phillips, a
>     couple from the recent discussion here
>   * Words about the intended use of the document
>   * Removal of the PRECIS profiles (but retention of the
>     recommendation to consult 8264)
>   * Normative reference to Unicode TR55
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
> Date: Mar 3, 2025 at 9:58:54 AM
> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-11.txt
>
> A new version of Internet-Draft draft-bray-unichars-11.txt has been
> successfully submitted by Paul Hoffman and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:     draft-bray-unichars
> Revision: 11
> Title:    Unicode Character Repertoire Subsets
> Date:     2025-03-03
> Group:    Individual Submission
> Pages:    11
> URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bray-unichars-11.txt
> Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bray-unichars/
> HTML: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bray-unichars-11.html
> HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bray-unichars
> Diff: https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-bray-unichars-11
>
> Abstract:
>
>   This document discusses specifying subsets of the Unicode character
>   repertoire for use in protocols and data formats.
>
>
>
> The IETF Secretariat
>
>