At 07:46 PM 6/12/2001, John Cowan wrote:
>I would urge Oracle and friends to move this to a different venue,
>specifically
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I can see, UTF-8S does not need either
>the approval or the disapproval of the Unicode Consortium. If it is
>actually in use, it needs a label -- and IANA is in the business of assigning
>such labels.
Yes, and it's time to put a stop to that for character sets. There are far
more than enough "assigned labels" for anyone.
>By registering UTF-8S with IANA,
No! No! A thousand times No! We must defend the honor of our names from all
who would desecrate them! Let them call it "CP1252s" if they want to trash
someone else's IP.
>it becomes a legitimate value of the
>encoding declaration in an XML document, for example, as well as suitable
for wrapping fish. (Reference intentional, and apologies to the fish)
>for use in MIME labels.
>--
>John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
> --Douglas Hofstadter
Yes, few could match Swift at art with sparks.
