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

Hi,

On Mar 20, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:
>> I just discussed the matter with Barbara Coleman (IANA),

Roseman, not Coleman.

>> at the IETF meeting. She said that IANA has no problem with UTF-8,  
>> providing that it is clearly specified in the RFC, with the list  
>> of allowed characters, if IANA is to check them (which is not the  
>> case for the Description fields, I believe, unlike subtags where  
>> IANA checks they are unique).
>
> Subtags are constrained to be Basic Latin (ASCII) letters and  
> digits, as stated in RFC 4646, and are unaffected by a change from  
> hex NCRs to UTF-8.
>
> Descriptions and comments could theoretically include almost any  
> ISO 10646 character, so providing a list would make little sense.
>
> Did Barbara say anything about converting the data from hex NCRs  
> *to* UTF-8?

I doubt it as I suspect she (like me) has no idea what "NCRs" are.

> That was the crux as far as I was concerned.  We want the Registry  
> to be in UTF-8, but it will be delivered via an I-D that must use  
> hex NCRs.

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.

Rgds,
-drc
General Manager, IANA

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