Re: Registering GBK and GB18030 in the IANA charset registry

[Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>]

Anthony Fok writes:
> Here is a first draft for the GB18030 registration.

Looks good. One remark, though, about MIME. While GB18030 is in theory
usable with MIME (because it's ASCII compatible), the facts that

    - GB18030 characters are in unambiguous 1:1 correspondence with
      21-bit Unicode characters,
    - the GB18030 converter is somewhat big (due to the GBK table
      size),

imply that mails should better be sent in UTF-8 encoding than in
GB18030 encoding. Because then the interoperability with mailers that
don't include a GB18030 converter is increased.

Therefore I would suggest to remove the "suitable for use in MIME"
sentence.

Bruno