Yamamoto-san,
A few comments:
At 2:23 AM 11/18/94, Kazuhiko Yamamoto
=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOzNLXE9CSScbKEI=?= <kazu wrote:
- I don't think 'charset' subtype is necessary if we use ISO 2022.
This is not a matter subject to opinion. In other words, the charset
parameter very much IS required for any text which is not simple ASCII.
I know several Unicode platform exist, but I don't want make Unicode
as an Internet starndart for this reason.
Unicode is not a candidate for standardization on the Internet.
I don't think MIME text/plain charset subtype is necessary if we all
ISO-2022-JP-2 because ISO-2022-JP-2 itself tells us what character set
are included.
In effect, you are saying that any subgroup on the Internet may decide to
declare their own default character set and then it would not need to have
Mime objects specify that type explicitly. While there is nothing to
prevent any subgroup from doing what it wishes, of course, the behavior
will be completely non-standard.
Also, the usual experience with such local deviations is that the behavior
escapes out into the Internet and causes quite a bit of confusion.
In other words, to quote my favorite systems analysis, Richard M. Nixon:
We could do it, but it would be wrong.
d/
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