Re: Registration of new charset BOCU-1

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 08:31 02/07/23 -0700, Markus Scherer wrote:
>Hello Harald et al.,
>
>The BOCU-1 registration proposal is now two weeks old (2002-jul-09), with 
>one response from Martin (jul09) and one response back from me (jul10).
>Since then, there were no further emails about this registration.
>
>I propose now to change the one paragraph that got Martin confused in the 
>way that I described, to:
>
>     CCS & CES: The BOCU-1 charset is a combination of the
>     Unicode/ISO 10646 Coded Character Set (CCS) with
>     the Character Encoding Scheme (CES) specified in
>     the above document. It covers exactly the
>     UTF-16-reachable subset of ISO 10646.
>
>(Replaced one instance of " and " with "/", on the second line.)

Very good, much less chance of getting confused.


>I further propose to otherwise leave the registration text as is and 
>proceed with the actual registration.

I still think it's a bad idea to advertise a character encoding
that we clearly discourage.

Regards,    Martin.