- From: Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>
- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 11:47:02 +0100 (MET)
- To: mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, unicore@Unicode.ORG, goldsmith@apple.com
> > > But even if is is restricted to UCS is would work fine to use: > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > > > > and only encode characters that can not be represented by 8 bits. > > Would work fine, eh? Who's going to figure out what the 8-bit > characters are, and how? If it is UCS, the 8-bit characters are in UCS, of course! (i.e. iso 8859-1) > And then also something like > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > would have to mean something (because iso-2022-jp is a pure > 7-bit encoding). Very strange indeed! > It is prefectely ok to use the above, even though there are no 8-bit characters. You are allowed to specify Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit even if no 8-bit codes are used. Dan --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
Received on Friday, 7 February 1997 02:49:38 UTC