A few notes:
- IANA is a registry. I believe the only legitimate grounds that they have
for denying a registration is that it is incompletely specified or has a
misleading name. Whether or not the Unicode consortium registered CESU-8 or
not, someone else could (and probably would) do so.
- Just because it is in IANA does *not* mean that everyone will support it.
There are many encodings in IANA supported by very few people. Nor does it
mean that it is intended for widespread public use. The IANA registry is
also used as a general purpose registry, even for encodings that have
limited or restricted use.
- A significant reason for CESU-8 garnering enough support was that its
introduction allows the definition of UTF-8 itself to be tightened, to
formally exclude the 3-byte surrogates both in reading and writing.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
To: <DougEwell2@cs.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>; <adollen@ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: PDUTR #26 posted
> From: <DougEwell2@cs.com>
>
> > If Michka is referring to non-compliant CESU-8 parsers, I really
> > wouldn't care much because CESU-8 is supposed to live in its
> > own little private world. But if people start compromising their
> > UTF-8 parsers to accommodate CESU-8 "adaptively," it would
> > be a great blow to UTF-8. It would essentially undo all the
> > tightening-up that was accomplished by the Corrigendum, and it
> > would revive all the old Bruce Schneier-style skepticism about the
> > "security" of Unicode.
>
> Actually, once its in IANA then it is legal in XML and other places, and
> *everyone* will have to support it, whether they want to or not. What is
> supposedly private will become quite public. IANA, after all, does not
have
> charsets that they register for people to "not use" and none of the people
> who implement charsets defined by IANA are set up to use such a construct
> anyway.
>
> Its actually the main reason I object to the idea of submitting it to
> IANA -- saying "we fear it being made public by someone else so we will
make
> it public ourselves to control it" is a little too much like if one were
> afraid of knives and therefore chose to stab oneself (since that way one
can
> control how the cut is made).
>
>
> MichKa
>
> Michael Kaplan
> Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> http://www.trigeminal.com/
>
>
>
>
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