Re: MIME (RFC1341) Charset question

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2 total messages Started by Jon Postel Fri, 09 Oct 1992 01:06

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Author: Jon Postel
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 01:06

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Hi.

I'd like to see a move to unify MIME charactersets with those listed in
RFC-1345.

--jon.

Re: MIME (RFC1341) Charset question

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Author: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 13:47

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Excerpts from mail: 8-Oct-92 Re: MIME (RFC1341) Charset .. Jon
Postel@ISI.EDU (98)


> I'd like to see a move to unify MIME charactersets with those listed in
> RFC-1345.

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "unify".  MIME has been strongly
biased towards keeping the number of charsets as low as possible, while
RFC 1345 provides a fairly exhaustive survey of what character sets are
in use.  I think it would be a mistake if MIME provided a blanket "seal
of approval" for ALL of those character sets -- the fewer redundant
character sets, the better, in my opinion.  However, if all you're
saying is that the character sets that DO overlap should be called by
the same name in the two documents, I certainly have no problem with
that!  -- Nathaniel

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