Re: Fwd: Registration of 6 charsets

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Martin;

> >>     There is no detailed description in English
> >>
> >>         The current BCP does require published description
> >>         but does not require it in English
> 
> I agree that there is no strict requirement; still it would be

There is strictly no requirement. That is the rule.

> a very good thing

I disagree but can see no point to discuss with you.

> >>     Four of them are declared not suitable for use in MIME
> >>
> >>         While it is not unclear when one should say "not suitable
> >>         for use in MIME", one can automatically make a charset
> >>         not shuitable for use in MIME by using some characters
> >>         in the charset name, anyway
> 
> This is a completely confused comment. All of the registrations
> are suitable for use with MIME, because all of them allow to
> respect the CR/LF conventions of MIME.

I'm afraid you are completely confused. I can see no requirement of
"CR/LF conventions" neither in RFC2278 nor for the suitability
for MIME use.

> >>     JIS X 0213 is not yet published
> >>
> >>         It's content was publisedh by WWW and it is now available
> >>         on papers.
> 
> JIS X 0213, for each of it's characters, lists the ISO 10646
> equivalent. That's very nice for the characters that have equivalents
> in ISO 10646.

It is a problem of ISO 10646.

But, JIS X 0213 is fine.

Your point has nothing to do with the requested registration.

						Masataka Ohta