Re: Proposal for insensitive registration

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

I expect there to be much more software that is written according to RFC 2978/2278 etc. than the use of these few offending charset names.
In my opinion, it is cleaner to remove the handful of names that violate the standard than to have names that conformant software must reject.

One question to ask:
Would the registrar want to permit new names with parentheses - incompatible with browsers and emailers?

markus

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 06:36:26PM -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
>>'(', example: NF_Z_62-010_(1973)
>>')', example: NF_Z_62-010_(1973)
>>
>>Notice that the last two are in violation of http://www.ietf.
>>org/rfc/rfc2978.txt, and should be removed!
>>
> 
> Or, the RFC2978 should be changed to accomodate these.
> the registrations came before the RFC2978, and the RFC tries to
> accomodate all the registrations. Furthermore it is against all
> recommendations on registries to remove items from them.