ietf-nntp Please use UTF-8, not UTF8

Martin J. Dürst mduerst at ifi.unizh.ch
Wed Oct 22 04:24:06 PDT 1997


On 22 Oct 1997, Petter Nilsen wrote:

> In article <344CFAF2.C3B136CD at netscape.com>, bhern at netscape.com (Brian
> Hernacki) wrote:
> 
> > see us defined something like UTF8 as the default charset used. While I
> > heard from people who agreed with me on this, I didn't hear any
> > objections. Is this OK? Do poeple think this would be a bad thing? If
> > not should we change the draft?
> 
> UTF8 sounds fine.

Please always use UTF-8 and not UTF8. UTF-8 is the correct MIME charset
value; UTF8 only is risking confusion.

[The only place where I have seen UTF8 instead of UTF-8 is VRML 2.0,
but that's not an IETF standard, and other values are not allowed
anyway.]

Regards,	Martin.




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