- From: Tom Hastings <hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 13:25:40 -0800 (PST)
- To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>, Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU, alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca
At 17:58 03/27/1998 PST, Chris Newman wrote: >On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Marc Blanchet wrote: >> Name: ISO-8859-15 >> Alias: ISO-8859-15 (preferred MIME name) >> Alias: latin9 >> Alias: csISOLatin9 > >You also need to state whether it is suitable for use with MIME text media >types. In this case, yes, since the set has CR and LF in the usual place. > > - Chris Do the other charsets registrations indicate whether they can be used with MIME text media types or not? Strictly speaking, the ISO 8859-n series are only graphic character sets, i.e., they are only specifying code positions 0x20 to 0x7e and 0xa0 to 0xff; they are silent about code positions 0x00 to 0x1f, 0x7f, and 0x80 to 0x9f which is where CR and LF go. Tom Hastings --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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