Re: Registration of new charset

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

Since there have been no negative comments about this proposed 
registration, and a reasonable amount of time has passed, I would like to 
approve it.

I would like to have one line added:
"This charset is suitable for use in MIME text body parts".

Markus, can you add this, and send the result to iana@iana.org and this 
list again?

Thanks for taking the time!

               Harald

--On 31. juli 2001 14:34 +0100 Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
>