Re: [apps-discuss] Documenting UTF-1 as Historic

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 10 June 2011 15:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Documenting UTF-1 as Historic
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On 2011-06-10 17:34, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There are a number of RFCs defining transformation formats of ISO
> 10646/Unicode - various UTFs. I mean RFC 3629 (UTF-8), RFC 2152 (UTF-7),
> RFC 2781 (UTF-16) and others. However, I've noticed UTF-1 isn't properly
> documented (or, at least, there is no formal record of it). However,
> since UTF-1 has never been widely used, I suppose it could be formally
> documented in Historic RFC, taking
> http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/178.pdf as a basis. Any thoughts on
> this?
> ...

Yes. Why do we care?