Re: Registration of new charset ISO 11548-1

[Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>]

At 06:16 06/09/30, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here is a submission request for the ISO 11548-1 charset, which is an
>8bit charset used for transmitting braille dots, for braille embossers
>and the Braille Protocol (aka BrlAPI). This is not a text charset since
>it lacks CR and such.
>
>Charset name:
>
>ISO-11548-1
>
>Charset aliases:
>
>ISO_11548-1

Is this alias already used? If not, better not define one.

>Suitability for use in MIME text:
>
>No.
>
>Published specification(s):
>
>ISO/TR 11548-1:2001
>
>ISO 10646 equivalency table:
>
>byte xy in ISO 11548-1 maps to U+28xy and vice-versa.

It may be good to say explicitly that this applies to
all 256 codepoints that can be expressed in this way.

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

The same thing as for your other registration applies.

>Intended usage:
>
>LIMITED USE

What is the limitation? E.g. if this encoding is best limited
to certain devices, it would be good to say so.

Regards,     Martin.


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