Re: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Sun, 17 September 2006 23:10 UTC

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To: Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8
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Addison Phillips scripsit:

> Uh... how about something like "in your registration form, non-ASCII 
> code points must be encoded as an XML-like NCR"
> 
> I didn't say that the registration forms had to support non-ASCII. Only 
> that it be possible for everyone to tell what the code points were 
> supposed to be and for IANA to arrive at a UTF-8 registry from them.

Okay, I'm fine with that, provided the NCR version remains as the
normative version of the registry; this is justified by *stare decisis*.

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