Re: PDUTR #26 posted

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan]

From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> False.
>
> IANA's registry is merely de facto: what they register is not in fact
> encodings, but *names* of encodings.  The charset name "ISO646-DE" is
> legal as an XML encoding, but it would astonish me if any extant
> XML parser supports it.  (This is one of those 7-bit encodings
> where [ \ ] ^ _ { | } etc. are used for language-specific letters.)

I think there is an important difference with CESU-8, since it is a new
encoding.


MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/