- From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:41:08 +0100 (MET)
- To: Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, unicore@Unicode.ORG, goldsmith@apple.com
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Dan Oscarsson wrote: > > > If there are no objections I will try to advance this to RFC > > (Experimental) status in two weeks, then register "UTF-7". > > > > The drafts says: > UTF-7 should normally be used only in the context of 7 bit > transports, such as mail and news. In other contexts, straight > Unicode or UTF-8 is preferred. > > > UTF-7 would work very nice with 8-bit transports, for example when sending > e-mail and using charset=iso-8859-1; content-transfer-encoding=8bit > allowing all 8-bits to be used giving an easy to read text of the > 8bit character set and still allowing all UCS-2 characters to be used. > > Most 8-bit character sets should be able to use it allowing them to > still be readable and compact without removing the possiblity to include > all UCS-2 characters. Is like if we had an UTF-8 that did not destroy > the 8-bit character set in use. This may sound like a good idea, but probably isn't. The main problem is that you would need "charset" tags of the form iso-8859-1-utf-7 and so on. We already have way too much different character encodings, so let's not create more without really strong needs. Regards, Martin. --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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