Re: Registration of new charset "UTF-16"

[Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>]

On Wed, 13 May 1998, MURATA Makoto wrote:
> It is my understanding that IANA is mererely for registering charset 
> values.  Detailed information should appear elsewhere.  Since none of 
> the registration for EBCDIC, fixed-width EUC, UCS-4, UCS-2 mentions 
> text/* media types, I would hesitate to incorporate such information.  
> MIME RFC's do mention the CRLF rule, which prohibits the use of UTF-16 
> for the transfer of UTF-16 text via e-mail.

The rule to mention whether a charset was suitable for text media types
was added with the RFC 2278 registration rules.  The registry hasn't been
fully updated yet to reflect those rules, but new registrations have to
meet them.

		- Chris