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Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

2003-01-15 10:37:25

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
UTF-8 does not adequately address i18n issues (language-tsgging)...
As others have noted, 2047-amended has its problems... and modern Unicode
(and thus UTF-8) *does* address language tagging...

MIME does not lack higher-level tagging facilities and is specifically
mentioned in the Unicode documents as one of those areas where the Unicode
language-tagging facility is not to be used.

Correct but completely irrelevant, since the issue under discussion was
UTF-8 as an alternative to MIME.  You were claiming that MIME was superior
because it had language tagging and UTF-8 didn't; that's incorrect.

Moreover, as Dan Kohn has
pointed out (on ietf-822), that language-tagging facility is under review
(it likely will be deprecated).

Perhaps, and perhaps not.  It is already "strongly discouraged", with
various similar phrases encouraging one to avoid it unless there is no
reasonable alternative.  However, it *is* part of Unicode and is not 
going to go away.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       
henry(_at_)spsystems(_dot_)net


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