Re: Registration of a new charset

[Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>]

Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ETSI/GSM0338.TXT
> 
> for the best sense that we (myself, Kent Karlsson, and
> Markus Kuhn) were able to make of trying to map this
> to Unicode.

I would prefer to see this (or a similar, public document) as the reference cited by the registration and the charsets list.

My main reason is that I looked at etsi.org and tried to download the specification. It forced me to register as a user, and the registration form forced me to agree to receive advertising spam. I find this unacceptable for a public standard document (and did not register).

> It doesn't seem advisable to me to suggest that it would
> be appropriate for MIME text encoding.

<From all I hear and read, I wholeheartedly agree. Registration yes, MIME no, and probably limited use.

markus
-- this is my personal opinion --