Excerpts from transarc.system.ietf-822: 16-Sep-94 Re: interoperablity
John Gardiner Myers(_at_)cmu(_dot_) (1633)
Masataka Ohta <mohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)cc(_dot_)titech(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp>
writes:
ISO-2022-JP as is without any encoding is ACTUALLY WORKING NOW completely
well for unstructured message headers. So is ISO-2022-INT-*.
It's "actually working now" in Japan only. In Europe, iso-8859-1 is
"working completely well" in message headers. In Russia, koi8-r is
"working completely well" in message headers.
Each of these approaches only works within its particular enclave.
None of these work outside their enclave, in a global Internet.
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Hear, hear. Nicely put.
Thanks,
Craig