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Re: Registration of new charset BRF

Hello Samuel,

Just a few comments below.

At 06:21 06/09/30, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here is a submission request for the BRF charset, which is a widely used
>charset for braille dots. It is also known as ASCII braille because
>it looks much like ASCII: the lower 32 characters are just equivalent
>to those of ASCII, and characters 32-95 just map braille dots to they
>(approximate) letter equivalent. It was defined by one of the first
>companies which produced embossers, Duxbury, and then widely spread as a
>standard way of exchanging already-contracted braille files.
>
>Charset name:
>
>BRF

Where does this name come from? Is that abbreviation already
established and used? It seems rather short for a charset label.

>Suitability for use in MIME text:
>
>Yes.
>
>Published specification(s):
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_ASCII

This does not look like the actual specification
(e.g. by ISO/IEC, a national standards organization,
or so), but looks more like a document about the encoding.
Is an original specification (e.g. on the Duxbury Web site)
available?

>ISO 10646 equivalency table:
>
>http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/BRF 

Three comments here:
- The format looks like 'almost XML'. I think it would
  be better to use XML or to avoid looking like XML.
- Why is the C1 area fully included? Are things such as
  "END OF MEDIUM" relevant in the context of braille?
  If not, I think it would be better to remove these.
- I'm not sure how long you can guarantee that this
  page will be up. Because it is very short, it may
  be best if you include the list here, rather than
  pointing to it.

>Additional information:
>
>Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

Giving your address is helpful, but probably better to
write:

Registered by Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

>Intended usage:
>
>COMMON

Regards,    Martin.



#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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