At 3:26 PM 11/17/94, Masataka Ohta wrote:
For 2022, you would have to
actually interpret the text to see what characters you need and then
display them.
Displaying is the job of terminal emulator and has nothing to do with
MUA.
Eh? There's fundamental misunderstanding of what an MUA does here. I
define an MUA as the interface between a person and the electronic
representation of electronic mail. The MUA must acquire email from an MTA,
read the electronic form of a message and render it for human perception.
It must translate human perception into electronic form suitable for
transmission by an MTA and deliver it to an MTA.
Modern MUAs render terminal emulators for the use of electronic mail irrelevant.
What is your definition, Ohta-san? I believe it must differ significantly
from mine.
At 11:16 PM 11/16/94, Pete Resnick wrote:
Once we thought that ASCII was all
that was needed and all we needed was to define RFC 822. That's obviously
not true anymore,
What?
RFC 822 is good enough for multilingual processing.
Now I'm completely confused. You argue that electronic mail standards
needs to support other charset systems, because of their inadequacy for
representing other languages. Now you apparently contradict yourself with
this statement. Can you reconcile this for us?
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
noerenberg.j (Applelink)
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