Re: Registration of new charset: UTF-32

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

I approve of the registration of the 3 UTF-32 charsets.

           Harald, charset reviewer

--On 30. juli 2001 09:25 -0700 Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com> wrote:

> Charset aliases:
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> NONE
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> Suitability for use in MIME text:
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> NO
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> Published specification(s):
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> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr19/
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> The IETF registration imposes one additional constraint: if there is no
> initial BOM then the byte-orientation must be big-endian. That is, in any
> stream that does not begin with the (hex) byte sequence <00 00 FE FF> all
> of the bytes are interpreted as big-endian.
>
> Note: This is parallel to the IETF registration of UTF-16. As defined by
> the Unicode Standard Version 3.1, without a BOM the byte orientation of
> UTF-32 and UTF-16 could be either little-endian or big-endian. The choice
> of byte orientation would be determined by a higher-level protocol. The
> IETF registration is such a protocol, and constrains the byte orientation
> to be big-endian for determinant interpretation.
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> ISO 10646 equivalency table:
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> Also in http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr19/
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> Additional information:
>
> Mark Davis
> 2509 Alpine Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
> mark@unicode.org
>
> Intended usage:
> LIMITED USE
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