In message "Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376",
Rick Jelliffe wrote...
I take your point, but it sidesteps the issue of
what someone is supposed to do when they type in Yen and
their "UTF-*"-labelled data comes out with the codepoint
for "/" being used. In that case, strictly they have
used the wrong mapping table and they have corrupted their
data; but if we can give them a way to escape into the
bliss of standard Unicode by labelling the variant encoding
they have effectively used.
This issue is very annoying, and I have failed to find
any good solutions. I think that the best solution is to migrate
to Unicode.
The proposed Japanese Profile for XML, which Murata-san
has been the leading light, says that there needs to be
extra IANA-registered sets to cover this problem.
Actually, although some names are used in the document, they
are not intended to be submitted to the ietf-charset list.
----
MURATA Makoto muraw3c(_at_)attglobal(_dot_)net