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In article <Bz9B07.8Bo.2@cs.cmu.edu>, ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
> In article <1gg2qjINN2df@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> >RFC 1341 explicitly cites a desire to use only characters
> >which appear in all[*] extant literal standards.  The set
> >[A-Za-z0-9+/] (the brackets aren't included) appears just
> >about everywhere.
> [...]
> >[*] almost all? I don't remember any exceptions.
> 
> What about BAUDOT?
> How about the standard APL character set?
> Neither of these has lower case if my memory serves.

Perhaps a better way to express it is: "only characters that appear
in all of the worlds that currently exchange rfc822-like-mail". [*]
That includes not only ASCII but several of the ISO 646 variants and
several versions of EBCDIC.  And there are a few others besides.
The point is to be Installed-Base Friendly.

(Gee, if you want to exchange MIME mail using Baudot, you could
probably use quoted-printable and RFC 1342's "Q" encoding to do it.
I think all the necessary characters are there.)

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