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RE: Registration of new charset "UTF-16"




> We might eventually define a MIME "widetext" top-level media type for
> plaintext data using UTF-16 or UCS-4, but I don't think it's time to do
> that yet.  UTF-8 is standards track and may be freely used in text/* media
> types.


I think it's time to do this. It's been a recurring issue for as long
as I've been trying to work the 'charset' issue in HTTP. What's needed
is something that just doesn't have the same end-of-line handling that 'text'
has, so I believe 'etext' would do.

Larry