UTF-16 and MIME text/*

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:30:57 +0200
• To: www-international@w3.org
• Cc: phoffman@imc.org
• Message-ID: <hi7ngtou07jevudt28p1km1jsssdgc73is@4ax.com>

Hi,

   RFC 2871 registers all UTF-16 charsets (UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE and
UTF-16) as not suitable for use in MIME content types under the
"text" top-level type. Why?

TIA,
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