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Re: i18n and Unicode/10646
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc VanHeyningen)
Wed Dec 7 09:02:40 1994
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 14:41:42 +0100
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From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>
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> > Another issue with using straight Unicode is that the MIME spec (at least,
> > the new draft version) specifies that all subtypes of the "text" content
> > type must use CRLF (0x0D 0x0A) line feed conventions, which rules out any
> > character set that does not use ASCII as a base, and certainly rules out a
> > 16 bit character set like Unicode.
>
> Perhaps you can be specific about draft states this. As far as I can
> tell, the rule for "text" and end-of-line only are for those text
> types that use charset=US-ASCII.
As he said, it's in the latest draft version. To be specific, it's section
6.1.1.1 of draft-ietf-822ext-mime-imb-01.
