Excerpts from info-mime: 13-Jul-94 Re: Ambiguity on 8859-* and.. Keld
J|rn Simonsen(_at_)dkuug (1185*)
It is correct that ISO 9959-1 can be coded in 7-bit only,
with G0/G1 bannouncing, and this was never intended in MIME,
with the charset=iso-8859-1 specification. The intention
was to refer to the charset RFC, where iso-8859-1 and the other
8859-series charset names are defined. making a reference to
RFC1345 for the charset definitons would clear up this problem.
Sigh. I thik this also gets us into standards-track problems, because
RFC 1345 is not a full standard and the next MIME doc is supposed to be,
and my understanding is that the reference cannot be made in that
direction.
Keld, can you suggest a simple standalone paragraph that we could add to
the MIME spec to make this crystal clear without introducing an actual
formal dependency on RFC 1345? -- Nathaniel