The IESG has approved RFC2279, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 as a Draft Standard. The IESG contact persons are Keith Moore and Patrik Faltstrom. Technical Summary The UTF-8 is one of the available encodings of ISO-10646, and the one which is recommended in RFC 2130. It is also the case that this encoding is backward compatible with US-ASCII, i.e. 16-bit characters with values between 0x0000 and 0x007F in ISO-10646 are encoded as one byte each, with these values (i.e. 0x00-0x7F), and those byte-values doesn't appear in the encoding of any other character. Therefore the encoding has also been called "file system safe". Working Group Summary There is consensus on moving this RFC to Draft Standard. Protocol Quality UTF-8 is implemented in various text handling routines in various operating systems, aswell as in applications natively. Interoperability has been tested with Microsoft Word 2000 and Tango Creator. The interoperability report can be found at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/rfc2279-implementation.txt The protocol was reviewed by Patrik Faltstrom
