- From: Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 09:19:00 +0100 (MET)
- To: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, unicore@Unicode.ORG, goldsmith@apple.com
> If there are no objections I will try to advance this to RFC
> (Experimental) status in two weeks, then register "UTF-7".
>
The drafts says:
UTF-7 should normally be used only in the context of 7 bit
transports, such as mail and news. In other contexts, straight
Unicode or UTF-8 is preferred.
UTF-7 would work very nice with 8-bit transports, for example when sending
e-mail and using charset=iso-8859-1; content-transfer-encoding=8bit
allowing all 8-bits to be used giving an easy to read text of the
8bit character set and still allowing all UCS-2 characters to be used.
Most 8-bit character sets should be able to use it allowing them to
still be readable and compact without removing the possiblity to include
all UCS-2 characters. Is like if we had an UTF-8 that did not destroy
the 8-bit character set in use.
Dan
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Dan Oscarsson
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Box 85
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Received on Thursday, 6 February 1997 00:23:05 UTC