Erik Fair wrote:
That still leaves me with a problem - I'll either have to
register the Mac character set somehow so that it's OK to move it
unmolested through 8bit SMTP (which means that people without Macs will
wonder what their European mac correspondents are really saying), or
translate its upper bits to whatever international standard character
set becomes the blessed version of 8 bit text. And back again for
incoming mail? Well, probably in the AppleLink case, yes, since all of
the terminal equipment on AppleLink are Macintoshes. I expect that the
QuickMail and MS/Mail SMTP gateways will work similarly. I'll bet that
still leaves me with some characters that can't be represented,
possibly in both directions. What a mess.
The Mac character set is registered in RFC-CHAR. I hope you (nor Apple)
do not mind that.
Using mnemonic format you can get your special 8-bit characters
represented anyhow, as 2-character sequences preceeded wit an
intro character. So the Apple logo can be transmitted.
Keld