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RE: Change to charset registry for "ECMA-cyrillic" (updated) (char-set)
IANA <iana@iana.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Please let the IANA know if this
> paragraph should be added to the registry:
>
> NOTE: The description of this charset in RFC 1345 is INCORRECT. The only
> correct and authoritative description of this charset is the registration
> document in the ISO registry, a scan of which appears at the URL given
> above.
Paul wrote on ietf-charsets:
: I purposely did *not* ask for that in the registry because nothing in
: the new registration indicates anything about RFC 1345. There are
: other know problems with RFC 1345, but it will take quite some time
: to resolve them. Until then, we should not be confusing folks reading
: the registry who haven't read RFC 1345.
I don't have strong feelings either way, I just thought it would be helpful to
warn people that RFC 1345 is wrong. I guess other people on ietf-charsets can
express their opinions.
But have you fixed the typo in the alias name, which should be KOI8-E and not
KO18-E?
MS