> Just checking: you say that the registration of UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE as
> the two registered names to be used in MIME is wrong?
>
If MIME is an interchange standard, then yes, it would be wrong. What is
the point of codifying the internal storage format of different computer
architectures in an interchange standard?
> If someone of you which oppose this paper want a different introduction
> which makes this point clearer, please submit text and I will be happy to
> discuss this with Paul.
>
I would suggest that Section 3, including all its subsections, be replaced
by a simple statement to the effect that UTF-16 shall always be transmitted
most-significant byte first, and that the text label be simply "UTF-16".
With this change, Section 4 is no longer needed and Section 5 can be
simplified.
- Frank
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