- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 18:55:20 +0900 (JST)
- To: klensin@INFOODS.MIT.EDU (John C Klensin)
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
> Unfortunately, we don't seem to have consensus in the community that > multilingual messages -- in MIME terms, single body parts containing > text in more than one language -- are "plain text". The attempt to define MIME charset for UNICODE to have text/plain UNICODE message shows that there is consensus that plain UNICODE text is plain text. So, the fact that BMP of ISO 10646 is an abbreviation of "Basic Multilingual Plane" is the evidence that we have consensus. Multilingual text is plain. I'm glad that the issue is settled without any untechnical debate this time. Masataka Ohta PS If BMP is not enough, the following are small part of excerpt of advertising material from Unicode Inc. on multilinguality. Unicode Announces Availability of Its Multilingual Text and Character Encoding Standards. Unicode Inc. is a Consortium of major computer companies dedicated to maintaining and promoting a worldwide 16-bit standard for multilingual text and character encoding. This standard makes multilingual software easier to write, informations systems easier to manage and international information exchange more practical. UNICODE CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES MERGER OF MULTILINGUAL STANDARDS --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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