- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:34:26 +0900
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, www-international@w3.org
On 2012/11/05 11:29, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Norbert Lindenberg, Mon, 5 Nov 2012 00:11:02 +0000: >> - I don't believe that the requirement "user agents must not support >> any other encodings or labels" is acceptable to all implementors who >> currently support a larger set of encodings. >> >> - It would also be useful to check with the ICU team whether they are >> willing to update their converters to match the proposed >> specification. > > In what way should ICU update their converters? ICU is a library - it > is not a user agent. Thus I don't see why it would need to remove its > large set of supported encodings. Yes, that would definitely be a bad idea. Also, changing what the encoding labels mean, in ICU as well as in other applications, would be a bad idea, because it will pull the rug under the feet of applications using ICU. But what ICU could/should do is to provide some information about which of its encodings correspond *exactly* to the ones in this spec. And in case there isn't such an encoding, create a new variant. Regards, Martin.
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