Hi folks,
FYI - the registration of UTF-16 for limited use (such as XML)
has finally been approved by the IESG. Note that it is NOT
suitable for an 'over-the-wire' protocol in any circumstances
(the byte ordering ambiguities aren't solved, just papered over
by the I-D referenced below).
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald (consulting architect at Sharp Labs America)
High North Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:Harald at Alvestrand.no]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:20 PM
To: ietf-charsets at iana.org
Subject: Fwd: Document Action: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to
Informational
Done at last.
Harald
>To: IETF-Announce: ;
>Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor at isi.edu>
>Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab at isi.edu>
>From: The IESG <iesg-secretary at ietf.org>
>Subject: Document Action: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to
> Informational
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:15:52 -0500
>Sender: scoya at cnri.reston.va.us>>>>The IESG has approved publication of the Internet-Draft 'UTF-16, an
>encoding of ISO 10646' <draft-hoffman-utf16-05.txt> as an Informational
>RFC. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
>IETF Working Group.
>>The IESG contact persons are Patrik Faltstrom and Keith Moore.
>>Note to RFC Editor:
>>1. Please add the following IANA consideration section:
>>IANA Considerations
>>IANA is to register the character sets found in Appendixes A.1, A.2,
>and A.3 according to RFC 2278, using registration templates found in
>those appendixes.
>>>>>2. Please change last paragraph of section 1.1 according to the following:
>--- OLD TEXT
>>The IETF policy on character sets and languages [CHARPOLICY] says that
>IETF protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 character encoding scheme
>[UTF-8]. Although UTF-8 has many beneficial properties, such as the
>direct encoding of US-ASCII characters, re-synchronization after loss
>of octets and immunity to the byte-order issue (see 3.1 below), it is
>less dense than UTF-16 for characters whose values are between 0x0800
>and 0xFFFF. Some products and network standards already specify UTF-16,
>making it an important encoding for the Internet.
>--- END
>>--- NEW TEXT
>The IETF policy on character sets and languages
>[CHARPOLICY] says that IETF protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8
>character encoding scheme [UTF-8]. Some products and network standards
>already specify UTF-16, making it an important encoding for the
>Internet. This document is not an update to the [CHARPOLICY] document,
>only a description of the UTF-16 encoding.
> --- END
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand at edb.maxware.no