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Of course, because of Han unification, UNICODE is not a charset of MIME.
As has been explained many times, Unicode is not listed as a charset of
Mime, in the Mime document, because the wg wanted to list the minimum,
required character sets; it was very, very clear that there is general
controversy about charactersets. Unicode has not yet received solid,
extensive, comfortable, global use. Hence, it was not a candidate.
None of this was specific to Han.
(My comment is not an evaluation of Unicode quality, etc. It is a
statement of the level of *existing* use at the time of the Mime wg
effort. The wg decided to opt in favor of listing only rock-solid,
completely entrenced, globally useful charactersets. I.e., it chose
the most conservative path it thought it could get away with.)
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