Re: Registration of new charset: UTF-32

[Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>]

At 06:48 PM 5/14/01 +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:34:24AM -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> > At 08:05 PM 5/11/01 +0100, Misha Wolf wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Has anyone looked to see how this ties in with:
> > >   Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)
> > >   Autodetection of Character Encodings (Non-Normative)
> > >   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-guessing
> > >
> > >Misha
> > >
> >
> > I took a quick look. The section already talks about 4-byte codes.
> > Replace UCS-4 by UTF-32 in that section and it would seem to cover it.
>
>I think that the w3c specs should rather refer the 10646 specs,
>and thus keep the reference to UCS-4.

We deliberately introduced the term UTF-32 since this regularizes
the notation for everyone. Little is to be gained by using a mixed
notation in that section using UTF-8, UTF-16 and UCS-4 together.

If you would like to fix the 10646 spec, you could propose that the
term UTF-32 is formally added there as well. As it stands, 10646
has an unfortunate asymmetry in notation that is cumbersome to use
for the non-specialist.

A./