Writing new codecs

[David Eppstein]

In article <j4bsnn8h1a.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
 Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> I think at the minimum, the codec must not be called "utf-7" if it
> does not implement RFC 2152/1642. Unfortunately, RFC 2060 does not
> give it an encoding name.
> 
> Note that the IANA registry gives "UTF-7" to the encoding described in
> RFC 2152, and "UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7" to the one described in RFC 1642. It
> doesn't give a name to the encoding of RFC 2060, either. So I think
> your patch should use a temporary codec name, until IANA assigns an
> official name to it.

So call it rfc-2060 ?
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/