[PATCH 0/5] iconv: module for MODIFIED-UTF-7

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Thu Aug 20 15:58:44 GMT 2020


* Max Gautier:

> Florian Weimer:
>> * Max Gautier via Libc-alpha:
>> 
>> > I am unaware of an official name for the encoding, so I used
>> > "MODIFIED-UTF-7". There might be better choices, if someone has insights
>> > on that.
>> 
>> Let's try to get it added to the IANA registry?  It's odd that a
>> charset defined in an RFC is not already contained in it.
>> 
>> The contact information for the registry seems to have atrophied a
>> bit.  I will try to figure out the current process.  Historically,
>> it's been Expert Review, so we shouldn't have to write an RFC for
>> this.
>
> Is the list here (and the linked RFC) not accurate ? 
>
> [1]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-info/charset-info.xhtml

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