Registration of new charset

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

I'd like to propose the IETF registration of a new charset according to

  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2278.txt 
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

Charset name:

  ISO-8859-16

Published specification:

  International Standard -- Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte
  coded graphic character sets -- Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10,
  ISO/IEC 8859-16:2001, 1st ed., International Organization for
  Standardization, Geneva. http://www.iso.ch/

Person & email address to contact for further information:

  Markus G. Kuhn
  University of Cambridge
  Computer Laboratory
  J J Thomson Avenue
  Cambridge CB3 0FD
  United Kingdom

  Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/

Additional information:

  Online ISO 10646 mapping table (also part of the printed standard):

    http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-16.TXT

  ISO 2022 identification:

    GZD4 04/02  (ESC 02/08 04/02)
    G1D6 06/02  (ESC 02/13 06/06)

  Online entry in the ISO 2375 International Register (ISO IR-6 + ISO IR-226):

    http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/006.pdf
    http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/226.pdf

  Online final ISO draft:

    http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso8859/fdis8859-16-en.pdf

  Equivalent National Standard:

    Romanian Standard SR 14111:1998, Romanian Standards Institution (ASRO).

Intended usage:

  "This set of coded graphic characters is intended for use in data and
  text processing applications and also for information interchange. The
  set contains graphic characters used for general purpose applications in
  typical office environments in at least the following languages:
  Albanian, Croatian, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish
  Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latin, Polish, Romanian, and
  Slovenian. This set of coded graphic characters may be regarded as a
  version of an 8-bit code according to ISO/IEC 2022 or ISO/IEC 4873 at
  level 1." [ISO 8859-16:2001(E), p. 1]

  ISO 8859-16 was primarily designed for single-byte encoding the Romanian
  language. The UTF-8 charset is the preferred and in today's MIME software
  more widely implemented encoding suitable for Romanian.