[tz] "Standard byte order"

[Guy Harris]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> We *should*, however, specify what encoding is used - ASCII, meaning "any byte with the 8th bit set is an error" and "the national-use positions of ISO 646 have the US characters", or "all strings are UTF-8", or something else.

(...and given the "@iana.org" in the Cc: header, "something else" probably wouldn't be considered an acceptable answer.)