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Re: [I18ndir] I18ndir early review of draft-ietf-dispatch-javascript-mjs-07

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 09 May 2020 16:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] I18ndir early review of draft-ietf-dispatch-javascript-mjs-07
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> I see nothing in either the body of the document nor in Appendix B that 
> makes it explicit that support for UTF-32 has been dropped.  I think 
> such a comment should be added and explained, even if the explanation is 
> that no one significant is accepting it any more and it is therefore NOT 
> RECOMMENDED and being dropped from the spec.

I agree that a comment saying that UTF-32 is dead as an interchange format 
would be reasonable.

> Noting (again) that, absent a BOM (or even with one) UTF-8
> cannot be reliably distinguished from ISO-8859-X (for any
> registered or unregistered value of X), ...

I'm wondering how much this matters in practice.  I see a lot of 
javascript libraries entirely in ASCII, since non-ASCII characters only 
appear in variable names and in string literals and comments.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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