RE: RFC 2279 (UTF-8) to Full Standard

[Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>]

François wrote:

> Markus Scherer wrote:
> > RFC 2279 still describes encodings for code points >U+10ffff.
> > That should be removed.
> 
> I'm not sure.  These code points ( >10FFFF) still exist, even though nobody
> is ever going to allocate anything there.
> 
> It could be argued that making this change is a major change and would
> require recycling to Proposed Standard instead of going to Full Standard.
> At present, I don't see any good reason to take that route.

I agree, even though the Unicode Standard only describes UTF-8
out to U+10FFFF. 10646 still gives the full scheme to U-7FFFFFFF,
and it will be awhile (if ever) before we can change that to
deprecate all the 5- and 6-byte values. So I see no good reason
right now to put RFC 2279 out of synch with 10646, particularly
if it would slow down a revision of RFC 2279 now.

--Ken