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

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Tue, 9 May 95 11:35:19 EDT

>Does the HTTP charset have to be a subset of 10646?

Yes.

>Why not just remove the restriction that the HTTP charset has to be a
>subset of 10646? I.e. remove the word "subset" somehow.

Because we cannot have ISO 10646 as the document charcater set then,
and we move back to square one without passing GO.

I'm sure Glenn will be more than willing to explain how JIS X 208 and
ISO-2022-JP work...