Your draft about iso-2022-jp

[Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>]

Hello Kenzaburo,

I have read your draft announced recently (draft-rfced-info-tamaru-00.txt).
I think providing a possibility to include JIS 212 into iso-2022-jp is a
good idea. Actually, this already has been done, in a somewhat wider
framework. Please look for iso-2022-jp-2 in the IANA charset registry.

Maybe this is too wide for your purposes. In this case, it is
probably better to define something new (such as iso-2022-jp-1,
iso-2022-jp-3, or iso-2022-jp-212), because most current
implementations that know about iso-2022-jp will not react
gracefully if they receive JIS 212 characters. Also, iso-2022-jp,
in its current version, has been included as Appendix 2 (normative)
in JIS X 0208:1997. A sudden change of the meaning of the label
would only lead to confusion. At last, there is the IETF definition
and the registration procedures for charset (currently being worked
on). I don't think that these allow, or should allow, such
drastic changes/additions to an existing "charset" as you are
proposing.

I am forwarding this mail to authors of the RFCs for iso-2022-jp
and iso-2022-jp-2, to the chair of the JIS 208 commitee, as well
as to the charset list where discussions about new charsets
are taking place.

With kind regards,	Martin.

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