Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 11:00:09 -0500
From: scs(_at_)adam(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu (Steve Summit)
To: ietf-822(_at_)dimacs(_dot_)rutgers(_dot_)edu
Subject: printable multibyte encodings
Cc: scs(_at_)adam(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu
Reply-To: scs(_at_)adam(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu
Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to define single-step
encodings of multibyte characters down to 7-bit printable
characters? Two simple extensions to MIME quoted-printable
spring to mind:
MIME currently has the model that the "canonical" form for any content-type
is an octet-stream. I don't want to break this, and there is no compelling
reason to do so.
The way to do 10646 is to define a MIME-canonical form that is an
octet-stream. Pick one such that most of the printable 10464 characters that
are also in the ASCII set coincide with the code values uses for those
characters in ASCII. Then encode the result with any content-transfer-
encoding you want.
Keith