Re: ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ

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From: Lennart Regebro
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00

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cfaerber@muc.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claus_Andr=E9_F=E4rber?=) wrote:

>Lennart Regebro <regebro@stacken.kth.se> schrieb:
>>
>> Quite possibly. But if you are using Code-page 437, your MIME header should
>> say so:
>
>No. Cp. 437 has nothing to do with ASCII. There is currently no MIME  
>RfC which defines a charset for Code page 437 nor 850. They MUST be  
>converted to iso-8859-1 (or maybe Unicode) and be labelled as such.
>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
>This is nonsense. US-ASCII is defined in MIME as a 7bit charset, thus  
>there must not be any 8bit characters present.

This is how the header LOOKED, which I clearly pointed out. Ie that header
was INCORRECT. :) Sorry for causing you to post needlessly. :)
-- 
Lennart Regebro         regebro@stacken.kth.se
Homepage                http://www.stacken.kth.se/~regebro/

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From: regebro@stacken.kth.se (Lennart Regebro)
Subject: Re: ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ
Date: 1997/04/24
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