Re: Suggested character set policy for the IETF

• From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:25:29 -0400
• To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>
• Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, IETF Languages <ietf-languages@uninett.no>, moore@cs.utk.edu
• Message-id: <199706272025.QAA07656@spot.cs.utk.edu>

> A charset in the MIME sense is a mapping from octets to characters and
> related presentation information.  One way of constructing a MIME charset
> is to combine a CCS with an invertible CES (note that a CCS and
> non-invertible CES is *not* a MIME charset).  

...and also note that a MIME charset is *not* necessarily a
combination of a CCS and a CES.

> While CCS and CES are useful concepts for people who build character
> sets; the MIME charset concept is the useful concept when presenting
> plain text.

Precisely.  

Keith



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