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Re: RFC2279 to Standard

If by "4 byte characters" you mean only codepoints < 65.536, I think this decision is WRONG. Outlawing planes 1 and 2 from being sent under the "UTF-8" tag would be a disaster on several counts.

If it's codepoints <= plane 15, I have no problems wit it.

--On torsdag, januar 09, 2003 09:39:32 +0100 Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com> wrote:

On onsdag, jan 8, 2003, at 23:07 Europe/Stockholm, Jacqueline Hargest
wrote:


IP   o Patrik to take action on elevating RFC2279 to Standard.

A version 3 of the draft is ready which will explicitly limit the IETF
UTF-8 version to 4 byte characters. This is because (a) we have never
before used UTF-8 for non-Unicode and (b) we can not find implementations
handling 5 and 6 byte implementations for the new ISO 10646 which have
many more codepoints.

The latter made me as AD make a decision that IF we say UTF-8 can be also
>4 octets then we probably have to restart at proposed, as the original
specification (even though not explicit) limits to that size.

If the IESG think this decision is wrong, let me know now.

    paf