- From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 16:38:20 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Cc: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@INNOSOFT.COM>, Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, IETF Languages <ietf-languages@uninett.no>
> I thought it was obvious: We currently say that a charset is a mapping from a > series of octets to a sequence of graphic characters. UTF-8 produces a lot more > than graphic characters. > I suppose you could argue that US-ASCII does too, but CR and LF are > specifically dealt with as an exception in MIME, whereas no comparable prose > exists in MIME to allow, say, directionality indicators. A small correction here: MIME part II actually does contain an exception that allows for directionality indicators as well.I forgot that I added this at the last minute. However, given that Unicode has all sorts of control information in it besides directionality indicators, there is still a problem. And I don't think having to revise MIME every time additional sorts of control information are added to a character set (something the UTC is planning to do) is a good idea. Ned --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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