[Gen-art] RE: Gen-ART review of draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3733bis-04

Scott Hollenbeck wrote:

> > 1) The document contains several references to UTF-8 like "names
> > MAY be provided in both UTF-8 [RFC3629] and a subset of UTF-8 that
> > can be represented in 7-bit ASCII depending on local needs."
> > 
> > This is not quite correct. UTF-8 is an encoding that converts
> > Unicode characters to octets. What the text probably means is that
> > "names MAY be provided in both Unicode and a subset of
> > Unicode..."; how Unicode is actually encoded depends on the XML
> > declaration, and it's not necessarily UTF-8.
> 
> The text is accurate as written.  The UTF-8 encoding is what's
> acceptable, other possible Unicode encodings are not.  Plus, the 
> XML declaration is only a hint, not a dependency.

Text later in the document (in Section 5) says that "EPP is
represented in XML", and "conformant XML processors recoginze both
UTF-8 and UTF-16", and "use of UTF-8 is RECOMMENDED in in environments
where parser encoding support incompatibility exists".  3730bis also
explicitly mentions using other encodings than UTF-8 (although it also
recommends UTF-8).

So it seems that other Unicode encodings _are_ acceptable in this
context...?

Best regards,
Pasi

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