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Re: Internationalization of the Internet

1994-12-06 22:41:05
At 9:10 PM 12/6/94, Satoshi Kinoshita wrote:
! > ! Make no mistake.  The use of ISO-2022-JP DOES violate RFC 822.
! > ! RFC 822 specifies ASCII.  ISO-2022-JP, as you say, is NOT ASCII.
! >
! > If ISO-2022-JP encoded Japanese character is violating RFC 822,
And then I'd like to hear the comment from the author of 822.

Dave, which do you think violate rfc822?

Anything which is not simple text and which, therefore, needs to be
labeled.  If it needs to be labeled but is not encapsulated in Mime, I
believe it violates the intent of RFC822, for general interoperability.

Of course, there are many, private conventions which would be labeled as
"violating" RFC 822.  As long as the community which uses them is happy,
then no one will complain about the violation.  The problem is that these
objects often escape into the general Internet and arrive at recipients who
do not understand the convention.  That is why standard labeling (via Mime)
is needed.

Hope this answers your questions.

d/

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