Re: format nego in HTML/10646?

Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Mon, 8 May 95 17:23:17 EDT

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Larry Masinter writes:
> >>>>> On Mon, 8 May 1995 12:55:36 -0700, connolly@w3.org (Dan Connolly) said:
> > |To support non-western writing systems, HTML user agents should
> > |support the Unicode-1-1-UTF-8 and Unicode-1-1-UCS-2 encodings and as
> > |much of the character repertoire of ISO10646 as is possible as well.
>
> As I thought I said before, "unicode-1-1-ucs-2" is not registered as
> an encoding with IANA (maybe you will want to); either register it or
> use a different name for the encoding you want.

Sure enough. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
only lists
ISO-10646-UCS-2

I kinda like UTF-8, but I don't see any "official" ways to
refer to it. Since this is just a note, I'm punting:

|To support non-western writing systems, HTML user agents should
|support ISO-10646-UCS-2 or similar character encoding schemes and as
|much of the character repertoire of ISO10646 as is practical as well.

Dan

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