When folks tell me not to worry as in my previous query, then I really do
get worried and try not to be hurried.  (last clause not of semantic intent
but scans well.) 8-)

So a few points of clarification please.  

Will the Unicode version of UTF-8 be registered with IANA and, if so, what
will be its "charset" designation?  

Is the following an accurate statement of the present situation?

Currently, if an email client receives a message with "Content Type:"
containing "charset=UTF-8" and accepts up to 6 octets for each scalar
value, it would be considered "Unicode compliant."  If it generated
messages with "Content Type:" containing "charset=UTF-8" and complied with
the IETF specification (RFC 2279) for generating UTF-8 8-bit values, it
would not be considered "Unicode compliant."  



Bill Kurmey, Edmonton, AB, Canada


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