Fwd: Document Action: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to Informational

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

Done at last.

             Harald


>To: IETF-Announce: ;
>Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@isi.edu>
>Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@isi.edu>
>From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
>Subject: Document Action: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to
>          Informational
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:15:52 -0500
>Sender: scoya@cnri.reston.va.us
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>The IESG has approved publication of the Internet-Draft 'UTF-16, an
>encoding of ISO 10646' <draft-hoffman-utf16-05.txt> as an Informational
>RFC.  This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
>IETF Working Group.
>
>The IESG contact persons are Patrik Faltstrom and Keith Moore.
>
>Note to RFC Editor:
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>1. Please add the following IANA consideration section:
>
>IANA Considerations
>
>IANA is to register the character sets found in Appendixes A.1, A.2,
>and A.3 according to RFC 2278, using registration templates found in
>those appendixes.
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>2. Please change last paragraph of section 1.1 according to the following:
>--- OLD TEXT
>
>The IETF policy on character sets and languages [CHARPOLICY] says that
>IETF protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 character encoding scheme
>[UTF-8]. Although UTF-8 has many beneficial properties, such as the
>direct encoding of US-ASCII characters, re-synchronization after loss
>of octets and immunity to the byte-order issue (see 3.1 below), it is
>less dense than UTF-16 for characters whose values are between 0x0800
>and 0xFFFF. Some products and network standards already specify UTF-16,
>making it an important encoding for the Internet.
>--- END
>
>--- NEW TEXT
>The IETF policy on character sets and languages
>[CHARPOLICY] says that IETF protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8
>character encoding scheme [UTF-8]. Some products and network standards
>already specify UTF-16, making it an important encoding for the
>Internet. This document is not an update to the [CHARPOLICY] document,
>only a description of the UTF-16 encoding.
>  --- END

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no