Registration of new charset "UTF-16"

[MURATA Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>]

We propose to register UTF-16 as a charset in IANA.  UTF-16 should be 
sent in network byte order (big-endian).  However, recipients should be 
able to handle both big-endian and little-endian.

Charset name(s): UTF-16

Published specification(s): 

UTF-16 is defined in Appendix C.3 of [UNICODE] and Amendment 1 of [ISO-10646].

[ISO-10646] ISO/IEC, Information Technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded 
Character Set (UCS) - Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane, 
May 1993, with amendments 1 through 7.

[UNICODE] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard -- Version 2.0", 
Addison-Wesley, 1996.


Person & email address to contact for further information:

Tatsuo L. Kobayashi
Digital Culture Research Center, JUSTSYSTEM Corp.
Email: Tatsuo_Kobayashi@justsystem.co.jp

Murata Makoto (Family Given)
Fuji Xerox Information Systems,
KSP 9A7, 2-1 Sakado 3-chome,
Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki-shi,
213 Japan
Email: murata@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp 


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MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)
Fuji Xerox Information Systems
 
Tel: +81-44-812-7230   Fax: +81-44-812-7231
E-mail: murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp