1254   UTF-8 coding to become mandatory

Created: 07 May 2014

Status: Not Applicable

Part: Part 6 (2004)

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Page: 24

Clause: 8.3

Paragraph: 1

Category: No impact on this part

Issue

Today UTF-8 coding is only the preferred method of coding characters in ICD files, which permits vendors to choose among other codings like ANSI or ASCII/DOS. Not all the system configuration tools do allow importing of ICD files coded other than UTF-8.

Proposal

To avoid interoperability issues vendors shall provide ICD files UTF-8 coded.