Re: Charset policy - Post Munich

From: Misha Wolf (misha.wolf@reuters.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 1997 - 18:46:37 EDT


Ed Hart responded privately but I trust he won't object to my forwarding his
response:

> From amendment 2: UCS Transformation format 8 (UTF-8)
>
> I'll see you on Wednesday afternoon.
>
> Best regards,
> Ed
>
> ----------
> From: Misha Wolf [SMTP:misha.wolf@reuters.com]
> Sent: 01 September, 1997 17:11
> To: Multiple Recipients of
> Subject: Re: Charset policy - Post Munich
>
> [I'm copying this mail to the unicode list. If any Unicoder responds,
> please copy your response to (ietf-charsets@innosoft.com).]
>
> A couple of minor comments:
>
> > (Note: ISO 10646 calls the UTF-8 CES a "Transfer Format" rather
> > than a "character encoding scheme", but it fits the charset report
> > definition of a character encoding scheme).
>
> As I'm on the road (actually at the Eleventh International Unicode
> Conference), I don't have access to the ISO 10646 amendments. I think
> that ISO 10646 calls UTF-8 a "Transformation Format", not a "Transfer
> Format". Can anyone check this? RFC 2130 contains many incorrect
> definitions including those of ASCII (!) and of UTF; please let's not
> add to them.

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