The issue of MIME charset tags were discussed at the recent UTC.
We agreed on the following:
UNICODE-2-0
UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7
UNICODE-2-0-UTF-8
In the meeting, we had actually used "-UTF7" and "-UTF8" with
the understanding that these would be reconciled with the format
of currently registered UTF tags. Since current tags are:
UNICODE-1-1
UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7
We need to use place a hyphen between "UTF" and "[78]" to stay
consistent.
I believe that moving ahead with a bare "UTF-8" is an extremely
bad idea. To stay consistent with previous tags, you should
have specified:
UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8
or
ISO-10646-UTF-8 (this is ambiguous regarding repertoire)
As the author of the I-D, you can revoke it prior to it being published
as an RFC. I would request that you do so immediately before it goes
out.
Regards,
Glenn
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