Re: [apps-discuss] [happiana] comments on draft-freed-media-type-regs

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> --On Saturday, February 04, 2012 16:42 -0800 Ned Freed
> <[e-mail]> wrote:

> >...
> >> 5. Encodings
> >
> >> When mentioning "7bit US-ASCII text", perhaps reference RFC
> >> 5198.
> >
> > Er, no. RFC 5198 doesn't even mention US-ASCII. And the
> > Unicode format it defines is 8bit, not 7bit!

> It mentions ASCII and, IIR, NVT ASCII.  As far as charsets are
> concerned, the latter, along with RFC 20 ASCII, are a 7bit code
> embedded in an 8bit field.  But they are mentioned largely in
> the context of moving beyond them.   (Abbreviated version of a
> long tirade: there is no such thing as "US-ASCII" and the term/
> attempted distinction doesn't even have informal value unless
> you think there are, e.g., Canadian-ASCII, Mexican-ASCII,
> Brazilian-ASCII, etc.).

But not US-ASCII, and as you say, it discusses ASCII in any form only in
passing. If we really need a reference for that we can copy the one that's in
MIME that actually points to a defining document. But seriously, does anyone
really think we need such a reference? We're concerned with encodings, not
charsets, here, and US-ASCII is simply being mentioned in some text providing
context as to why encodings are even part of a registration.

				Ned