RE: Registration of a new charset

[Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

I'm the reviewer...

2 pieces of information I like to have in a registration:

- Suitability for MIME text encoding: (Yes/No)
  (I think yes - it has CR and LF in the obvious places)
- Whether a mapping to Unicode exists, and if so, where.
  (is that character at 0x09 a C-cedilla or a C with-hook?
   Upper or lower case? details are out to get you...but "no" is a fine
   answer...)

A small detail is that the GSM default charset (yes, I read the reference - 
ETSI has a sensible distribution policy) is a 7-bit character set; it is 
"obvious but worth stating" that when this character set is used, the 
character is carried in an 8-bit byte, with the character in the lower 7 
bits, and the 8th bit is zero (unlike SMS, which jams 8 characters in 7 
bytes).

                        Harald



--On fredag, september 21, 2001 16:38:05 +0200 Simon Tardell 
<simon.tardell@smarttrust.com> wrote:

>
> So, what do I do now? Where do I find the reviewer?
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Tardell [mailto:simon.tardell@smarttrust.com]
> Sent: den 5 september 2001 13:58
> To: 'ietf-charsets@iana.org'
> Subject: Registration of a new charset
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>
>
> (resent -- I am sorry if this appears twice)
>
> I am somewhat surprised that this has not surfaced before. If I missed
> something, let me know.
>
> I'd like to register the GSM default alphabet. GSM default alphabet is
> the character set used to encode (western) GSM short messages. With the
> advent of SM based internet services the need to name this character set
> in internet messages arises.
>
> Charset name:
> GSM-default-alphabet
>
> Published specification:
> Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Alphabets and
> language-specific information (GSM 03.38 version 7.2.0 Release 1998)
>
> http://www.etsi.org/
>
> Person & email address to contact for further information regarding this
> registration:  Simon Tardell, simon.tardell@smarttrust.com
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
> Simon Tardell, Software Architect, SmartTrust
> voice +46 8 6853174, fax +46 8 6856530
> cell +46 70 3198319, simon.tardell@smarttrust.com
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