From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Thu Nov 25 2004 - 23:45:10 CST
Yes, this is a misrepresentation. Both committees work together to ensure
that the repertoire is identical.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>; <aphillips@webmethods.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 13:59
Subject: Relationship between Unicode and 10646 (was: Re: Shift-JIS
conversion.)
> Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
>
> >> UTF-8 is an encoding of the Unicode character set.
> >
> > More exactly, UTF-8 is an encoding of the ISO/IEC 10646 character
> > set...
> >
> > Unicode by itself is not a character set, only an implementation of
> > the ISO/IEC 10646 character set...
> >
> > Of course the Unicode technical commitee may propose new assignments
> > to ISO/IEC, but this is still ISO/IEC 10646 which maintains the
> > repertoire and approves or rejects the proposals. A new character
> > proposal may be rejected by Unicode, but accepted by ISO/IEC 10646;
> > and it is the ISO/IEC 10646 vote that prevails (so Unicode will have
> > to accept this ISO/IEC decision, even if it has voted against it in a
> > prior decision).
>
> I'd have to defer to the actual UTC and WG2 members, but my feeling is
> that this badly misrepresents the relationship between Unicode and
> 10646, and between their respective standardization bodies.
>
> My impression is that Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 are two distinct
> standards, administered respectively by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2,
> which have pledged to work together to keep the standards perfectly
> aligned and interoperable, because it would be destructive to both
> standards to do otherwise. I don't think of it at all as the "slave and
> master" relationship Philippe describes.
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
>
>
>
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