- From: Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 22:44:05 -0600 (CST)
- To: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- cc: www-international@w3.org
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Francois Yergeau wrote: > À 02:19 07-12-96 -0600, Klaus Weide a écrit : > >On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Chris Lilley wrote: > >> UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8 does not appear to be registered; although RFC 1641 > >> postulates it as a theoretical entity, RFC 2044 (not yet diffused to all > >> mirrors) specified UTF-8. > > > >It was there, until around the time when RFC 2044 got published. > >At that point UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8 disappeared without any trace from > >the registry, and UTF-8 appeared instead. > > This is wrong, "UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8" was never in the IANA registry, which is > the reason I wrote up RFC 2044 in the first place: to get UTF-8 registered > as a legitimate charset. I apologize for having given factually false information. I was going by memory, which was apparently faulty. [...] > >And note that RFC 2044 > >has just "Informational" status. > > Which is the correct status for a document supporting a charset > registration. Yes, I only mentioned it because I was under the (false) impression that the registration of "UTF-8" had superseded an earlier one for the longer name. Klaus
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