On Tue, 01 Dec 92 15:06:39 +0900, Erik M. van der Poel wrote:
+ Also, the message body must end with CRLF, and there must be a switch
+ to ASCII before the last CRLF (if there are any non-ASCII characters
+ in the message body).
I think this added text is unnecessary, confusing, and inaccurate.
SMTP transmitted message, by definition, end with CRLF, since the DATA ends
with a line containing only a period.
This new text implies, albeit unintentionally, that there must be an
additional switch to ASCII at the end of the message even if the current mode
is ASCII.
I suggest this entire paragraph be deleted. If you really want to emphasize
the intended point, I suggest the following text instead:
Although a shift to the "Roman" character set of JIS X 0201 is permitted
prior to a CRLF (thus setting the character set of the next line to Roman
instead of ASCII), the final shift in the message MUST be to ASCII. This
shift shall occur at the latest immediately before the final CRLF which
terminates all Internet messages.