Re: Registration of new charsets UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF32LE

[Mark Davis <mark.davis@us.ibm.com>]

Sorry, I missed that. Do you want me to resubmit, or could you just make
that change?

Mark
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ned.freed@mrochek.com on 05-09-2001 09:54:09

To:   Mark Davis <markdavis34@home.com>
cc:   ietf-charsets@iana.org
Subject:  Re: Registration of new charsets UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF32LE



> Charset aliases:

> NONE

> Suitability for use in MIME text:

> YES

Sorry. UTF-32, like UTF-16 is NOT suitable for use in MIME text. In
particular,
it uses octets with a value of 0. Additionally, CR and LF aren't
represented in
the same way as in ASCII.

The answer to this question is therefore NO, not YES.

> Published specification(s):

> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr19/

> ISO 10646 equivalency table:

> Also in http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr19/

> Additional information:

> Mark Davis
> 2509 Alpine Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
> mark@unicode.org

> Intended usage:
> LIMITED USE

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