Re: UNICODE & OTHER STANDARDS

From: Hallvard B Furuseth (h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 13:34:12 EST

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    Philippe Verdy writes:
    >From: "Christopher John Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
    >> Anyone have a list of other standards, protocols, RFC's etc which
    >> specify Unicode (in any of it's encoding formats) as the base,
    >> default or preferred character set to be used?
    >
    > For RFCs it's not difficult to get this list using the RFCeditor.org
    > built-in search engine.

    And future charset-aware RFCs will support UTF-8, except in rare cases
    where the IESG grants an exception (typically for backwards
    compatiblity), since rfc2277 says 'Protocols MUST be able to use the
    UTF-8 charset'.

    -- 
    Hallvard
    


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