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Re: windows-874 new registration

In 2007, windows-874 was the 18th, in 2001 it was 20th. There are more
html meta charset labels than http charset labels (74% vs 43% in
2007). That's why I focussed on the meta charset. I haven't looked at
email charsets.

Anyway, I don't feel strongly about COMMON vs LIMITED USE for windows-874.

Erik

On 6/16/07, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
> * Erik van der Poel wrote:
> >On 6/16/07, Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote:
> >> + UTF-8 is preferred to windows-874 when permissible for Thai.
> >>
> >> For such more or less obsolete charsets, why do you write COMMON ?
> >
> >Where do we draw the line between "obsolete" and "common"? In 2001,
> >0.249% of HTML documents with a meta charset tag were labelled
> >windows-874. In 2007, that percentage is 0.139%.
>
> I don't think Frank is suggesting to mark it obsolete. The measure is:
>
>    A charset should therefore be registered ONLY if it adds significant
>    functionality that is valuable to a large community, OR if it
>    documents existing practice in a large community.  Note that charsets
>    registered for the second reason should be explicitly marked as being
>    of limited or specialized use and should only be used in Internet
>    messages with prior bilateral agreement.
>
> I am afraid your numbers don't help us much to make a decision, there
> are infinitely many HTML documents with a <meta> charset so you picked
> just some subset to determine those numbers without saying which subset,
> HTML <meta> elements are not the only relevant context, and you don't
> say anything about other labels; an answer based just on your numbers
> might well be different if windows-874 was the 2nd most used label or
> the 42nd most used one.
>
> Given "UTF-8 is preferred to windows-874 when permissible" it seems to
> me the registration does not add significant functionality that is val-
> uable to a large community, and LIMITED USE would therefore be more
> appropriate.
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