I believe that they also wanted it to be formally defined by the UTC,
although certainly if that does not work they can always take the approach
you cite.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 19:46
Subject: UTF-8S: a modest proposal
> I would urge Oracle and friends to move this to a different venue,
specifically
> ietf-charsets@iana.org. As far as I can see, UTF-8S does not need either
> the approval or the disapproval of the Unicode Consortium. If it is
> actually in use, it needs a label -- and IANA is in the business of
assigning
> such labels.
>
> By registering UTF-8S with IANA, it becomes a legitimate value of the
> encoding declaration in an XML document, for example, as well as suitable
> for use in MIME labels.
>
> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
> --Douglas Hofstadter
>
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