Protocol Action: 'UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646' to Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 11 August 2003 20:30 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646' to Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'UTF-8, a transformation format of 
ISO 10646' <draft-yergeau-rfc2279bis-05.txt> as a Standard. This document 
has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working 
Group. The IESG contact person is Ted Hardie.

Technical Summary

This document updates the specification of UTF-8,
an encoding of the UCS which is designed to be
compatible with many current applications and protocols. UTF-8
has the characteristic of preserving the full US-ASCII range,
providing compatibility with file systems, parsers and other software
that rely on US-ASCII values but are transparent to other values.
This memo obsoletes and replaces RFC 2279.


Working Group Summary

This draft and the interoperability reports associated with it were 
discussed 
on the IETF-charsets@iana.org mailing list. Archives may be
found at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-charsets/ among
other places.


Protocol Quality

This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Patrik Falstrom.

Protocol Action: 'UTF-8, a transformation format … The IESG