RE: windows-874 new registration

[Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se>]

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: 
> * Kent Karlsson wrote:
> >UTF-8 is preferred to windows-1252 when permissible.
> >UTF-8 is preferred to ISO-8859-1 when permissible.
> >
> >Such statements about UTF-8 versus some non-Unicode charset, 
> perfectly
> >agreeable as formulated above, by themselves renders no "charset"
> >obsolete or of limited use.
> 
> The former statement does not stand by itself, it is part of 
> the regis-
> tration document proposed in this thread.

I know.

> I don't think that putting the
> latter statement of yours into the ISO-8859-1 registration document is
> particularily agreeable at the moment, it would give a false impression
> about the status of ISO-8859-1.

It does not give a false impression about the status of ISO-8859-1
(which I find to be the same as for TIS-620 (or ISO-8859-11 Latin/Thai)).

I do question your implication of such statements that they would
mean that "other" charset is obsolete or of limited use (other than
the obvious limitation in characters representable).

None of the charsets mentioned are obsolete or of limited use.

But UTF-8 is still preferable (when permissible) over each of the
non-Unicode charsets, due to the universality of Unicode/10646.

	/kent k