[Ltru] Re: IANA, UTF-8 and the Language Subtag Registry

David Conrad wrote:

> no idea what "NCRs" are.

Numerical Character Reference, in Web documents in the form
&#x103456; for u+103456.  It's what you have in the language
subtag registry today.  

Some "misguided" folks (= roughly anybody but me here) want
to switch the registry to UTF-8.  You'd then get one last
Internet-Draft in the old style (because I-Ds are US ASCII)
with hex. NCRs, and "somehow" you'd have to translate this
to UTF-8 (once).

> So you want IANA to do a post processing step to translate
> hex NCRs (whatever they are) into UTF-8?  That's fine, as
> long as the IANA considerations section is clear about what
> we need to do for the translation.

Deriving UTF-32 from the NCR-input would be very simple, and
from there to UTF-8 you'd pick whatever you have.  And most
likely deriving UTF-16 will do if all NCRs stay below &#xFFFF;

Frank

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