[CHARSET-REG]  Freed, N., and J. Postel, "IANA Charset Registration
                  Procedures", BCP 19, RFC 2278, January 1998.

   [FSS_UTF]      X/Open CAE Specification C501 ISBN 1-85912-082-2 28cm.
                  22p. pbk. 172g.  4/95, X/Open Company Ltd., "File
                  System Safe UCS Transformation Format (FSS_UTF)",
                  X/Open Preleminary Specification, Document Number
                  P316.  Also published in Unicode Technical Report #4.

   [ISO-10646]    ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. International Standard --
                  Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet
                  Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and
                  Basic Multilingual Plane.  Five amendments and a
                  technical corrigendum have been published up to now.
                  UTF-8 is described in Annex R, published as Amendment
                  2.  UTF-16 is described in Annex Q, published as
                  Amendment 1. 17 other amendments are currently at
                  various stages of standardization.

   [MIME]         Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet
                  Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One:  Format of Internet
                  Message Bodies", RFC 2045.  N. Freed, N. Borenstein,
                  "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part
                  Two:  Media Types", RFC 2046.  K. Moore, "MIME
                  (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three:
                  Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text", RFC
                  2047.  N.  Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel, "Multipurpose
                  Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four:
                  Registration Procedures", RFC 2048.  N. Freed, N.
                  Borenstein, " Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
                  (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples",
                  RFC 2049.  All November 1996.

   [RFC2152]      Goldsmith, D., and M. Davis, "UTF-7: A Mail-safe
                  Transformation Format of Unicode", RFC 1642, Taligent
                  inc., May 1997. (Obsoletes RFC1642)

   [UNICODE]      The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard --
                  Version 2.0", Addison-Wesley, 1996.

   [US-ASCII]     Coded Character Set--7-bit American Standard Code for
                  Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986.








 
RFC 2279                         UTF-8                      January 1998


Author's Address

   Francois Yergeau
   Alis Technologies
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