- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:42:06 -0500
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org, langtrans@salut.nu
Jacob, I think there are two separate problems here that should not be combined: 1. If you are trying to send out multi-lingual text to today's user agents, naturally you need to choose whatever format you think is most compatible with the user agents used by the recipients of those messages. 2. If we want to standardize a MIME format for sending out multi-lingual text, then we would need to pick a format that met the criteria for standards-track documents: no known technical omissions, etc. As a practical matter, we would also want reason to believe that at least some UA vendors (whether commercial or not) were likely to implement that format. It's quite reasonable to ask which representation of the messages would work best for purpose #1. That doesn't mean, however, that such a representation would meet the quality for standards-track documents or that vendors would implement it. Keith
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