Excerpts from mail: 20-Dec-91 Re: Character set Detail Co.. Dave
Crocker(_at_)Mordor(_dot_)Stan (1523)
Your document provides a place to declare character set. I believe that
there is nothing to prevent the folks out there from citing whatever
character set they want, in each message. (X-myset, X-ISO-10646, or
whatever.)
Yeah, well, maybe. But I think that "X-ISO-8859-1" is kind of offensive
-- there's hardly anything experimental about it, which is what "X-"
usually implies. How about the following compromise proposal:
RFC-XXXX defines a place to put the "charset" value, as it does now. It
defines "US-ASCII' as the string to use for expressing, well, US-ASCII.
It says other values may be used among consenting mail systems, and
SUGGESTS that the names given to the character sets should be taken from
RFC-CHAR. End of story. That is functionally equivalent to the current
draft, I believe. Would it be satisfactory to all parties?