Re: Registration of new charset [ISO-2022-JP-2004]

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> The obvious remedy is to change the rule to be:
> 
>    single-byte-segment = single-byte-seq 0*single-byte-char
> 
> But this then brings up the concern that it will make some currently 
> compliant implementations incompliant.

that's not a good reason to not change the specification.   of course 
old implementations won't necessarily be compliant with a new version of 
the specification.  the whole point of changing the specification is to 
encourage better behavior in new software and new versions of old software.