Masataka Ohta writes:
Well, 8859-1 became a ISO standard in 1987.
And, outside European cultture, not used at all.
Still, it covers Western Europe, and the Americas.
And I was only mentioning it as an example of a 8859 part and how
long it has been in existense. The other 8859 parts were also
(most of them) ready as ISO standards 6 to 7 years ago .
So in the communication world history this is a pretty long time.
Code 255 must be stable to transport normal text in the 8859 series.
In some area of Europe, may be.
Well for all 8bit text transfers done by MIME and ESMTP technologies.
The 8859 series are the only mandatory charsets for MIME use,
and they cover more than just 8859-1, there is an arabic and a cyrillic
part too.
But, 8BITMIE SMTP is a lot more stable transport for 0-255 text.
How big a problem is this?
Not at all, unless you mind broken transports.
I do mind broken transports.
How big a problem is code 255 with MIME and ESMTP?
Keld