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Re: Translated IUC10 Web pages: Experimental Results

From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:07:14 +0100 (MET)
Message-Id: <9702051807.ZM20526@grommit.inria.fr>
To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>, www-international@w3.org
Cc: Unicore <unicore@unicode.org>, Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>, Search <search@mccmedia.com>, ISO10646 <iso10646@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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On Feb 5,  5:14pm, Martin J. Duerst wrote:

> It is not very harmful to label such pages ISO-8859-1 or whatever.
> But strictly speaking, it is not legal! If there are alternatives
> for labeling, the most restrictive label should be used. If it's
> labeled us-ascii, you know that it's going to pass though 7-bit
> mail. Otherwise, you don't.

It is not advisible, certainly, but it is legal.



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