- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:23:53 +0200
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@INNOSOFT.COM>, owner-ietf-languages@uninett.no
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, IETF Languages <ietf-languages@uninett.no>
"Martin J. Duerst" writes: > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Ned Freed wrote: > > > > 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. The key word here is "graphics". All the registrations I did had control characters in them, if not you could not figure out what characters were in the stream. The work "graphic" should surely be removed or expanded to also allow control characters for MIME. Keld --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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