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A 13: 25 98-03-30 PST, Tom Hastings a *crit :
>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

[Alain] :
That is correct, the whole series is only dealing with graphic characters,
not even with CR/LF, which are of course an essential part of the text data
realm anyway, but ouside this series of standards.

Alain LaBonté
Québec

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