Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer

[Jefsey_Morfin <jefsey@jefsey.com>]

At 12:02 08/09/2006, Martin Duerst wrote:
>True. The most affected languages are not CJK (Chinese, Japanese, 
>Korean), but all the scripts that have most of their characters beyond
>U+0800 but don't need two bytes to encode the particular script, 
>i.e. all the Indian Scripts, and so on. A serious part of the 
>overhead is often (but not always) compensated by the fact that 
>protocol or markup information is usually heavily ascii-biased.

Correct, this is one part of their problem, the other is the 
difference between graphemes and characters. However, the first 
question is: is the charset registry meant to register existing 
charsets or the IETF to standardise the new charsets and keyboards 
language need?  Or do you mean you would suggest designing new 
charsets somewhere else and to have them registered by the IETF on the IANA?
jfc