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Re: restrictions when defining charsets

1993-02-03 10:28:38
RFC 1341 contains the following in Section 2:

The term "character set", wherever it is used in this document, refers
to a coded character set, in the sense of ISO character set
standardization work, and must not be misinterpreted as meaning "a set
of characters."

Would people be happier with the following?

The term "character set", wherever it is used in this document, refers
to a set of rules for the interpretation of an octet stream for the
display of character-based text, such that the interpretation of each
octet cannot be questioned, the number of representable characters is
limited, and no further information is needed to determine the complete
identity of the character set.  The term "character set" must not be
misinterpreted as meaning "a set of characters".

Will that make people happy?  Any suggested improvements?