Re: Revised language on: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Tue, 9 May 95 13:53:29 EDT

>% Because we cannot have ISO 10646 as the document charcater set then,
>% and we move back to square one without passing GO.
>
>I am lost. I believed that HTTP charset should be an 8 bit one.

The encoding could be 8 or 16 bit.

When we refer to "document character set" and "subset of ISO 10646",
we are talking about characters, not about codes used to represent
characters, nor about encodings.