Re: Registration of new IBM Char Sets

The only one that can be used in MIME, etc. is IBM850. All the others have
an EBCDIC encoding and are not suitable for use "on the wire".
Regards,
______________________________________________________
Tamer Mahdi
Globalization Center of Competency
IBM Toronto Lab
81/979/895/TOR
Phone: (416) 448-2680, Fax: (416) 448-2747
e-mail: tamer@ca.ibm.com




Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com> on 05/30/2000 02:29:50 PM

Please respond to Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>

To:   Tamer Mahdi/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
cc:   ietf-charsets@iana.org, iana@iana.org, iana@isi.edu, Antoine Leca
      <Antoine.Leca@renault.fr>, Harald Tveit Alvestrand
      <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Subject:  Re: Registration of new IBM Char Sets




Hello Tamer,

Does anybody currently use any of those IBM character encodings "on the
wire" (i.e. in an Internet protocol such as MIME email or HTTP)?

Thanks,

Erik