RE: windows-874 new registration

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>]

We saw this before, but I got distracted, so I'm asking for more public review.

Thanks,
Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Steele 
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Shawn Steele; ietf-charsets@mail.apps.ietf.org
Subject: RE: windows-874 new registration

Working on consensus :)  I added "for Thai" to address the concern about the code page's correlation to a language.

I left the usage as "common".  Since this is the CP_ACP for a Thai Windows machine it is quite common.  The is somewhat unrelated to the recommendation that UTF-8 be used instead.
 
Thanks,

- Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Steele 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:29 PM
To: ietf-charsets@mail.apps.ietf.org
Subject: windows-874 new registration

Windows-874 is in use by several groups, but it hasn't been registered yet, so I'd like to submit it for review:  The form is similar to the 1252 request we discussed last year.

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Charset name: windows-874

Charset aliases: (None)

Suitability for use in MIME text:

  Yes, windows-874 is suitable for use with subtypes of the "text"
  Content-Type. Note that windows-874 is an 8-bit charset. Care should
  be taken to choose an appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding.

Published specification(s):

  1) http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/874.htm

ISO 10646 equivalency table:

  http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP874.TXT

Additional information:

  UTF-8 is preferred to windows-874 for Thai, when permissible.

  Although not authoritative, the following references may also be of
  interest:

  Printed mapping table:
  Dr. International "Developing International Software, Second Edition",
  Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-1583-7, 2003, p. 779-782

  Microsoft windows extended "best fit" behavior:
  http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WindowsBestFit/bestfit874.txt

  This is a request for a new registration of this charset. This
  charset name is in use.

  This charset is also known as Windows Code Page 874, DOS-874,
  or cp874 for short; these are NOT aliases.

Person & email address to contact for further information:

  Shawn Steele
  Email: Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com

  Microsoft Corporation
  One Microsoft Way,
  Redmond, WA 98052
  U.S.A.

Intended usage: COMMON