À 09:44 11-09-96 -0400, Glenn Adams a écrit :
>I believe that moving ahead with a bare "UTF-8" is an extremely
>bad idea. To stay consistent with previous tags, you should
>have specified:
>
> UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8
>
> or
>
> ISO-10646-UTF-8 (this is ambiguous regarding repertoire)
>
>As the author of the I-D, you can revoke it prior to it being published
>as an RFC. I would request that you do so immediately before it goes
>out.
Before I do that, I would like to see a little more argumentation, beyond
the naked statement that it is "an extremely bad idea". The consistency
argument seems pretty weak to me, in the face of a consensus for "UTF-8"
alone reached after a quite lengthy discussion on the ISO10646 list,
involving a number of knowledgeable people .
Has the UTC considered the question for more than a few minutes, or has it
simply found it expedient to follow the pattern? Has a case been made for
the need of a version number in the MIME tag(s)? Is it based on the change
to the Korean encoding? If so, does the UTC consider this incompatible
change to be a serious problem in practice?
Regards,
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