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Re: latest draft - content-transfer-encoding

1992-02-28 15:54:14

UTF is not strictly speaking a transfer encoding.  It is in its
native form 8 bits, and needs to be encoded into 7 bits to be usable
via SMTP.  UTF is defined as a transport-like encoding of ISO10646, it
would likely be indicated in MIME as a character set. (A profile of
ISO10646).

Greg V.