Excerpts from transarc.system.ietf-822: 8-Dec-94 Re: Don't change RFC822
for.. Masataka Ohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)c (731)
ii) by using MIME to label your use of ISO-2022, you give the recipient
a way to know (at least, and maybe see) what you intended.
By using ISO 2022 to label, the recipient has a way to know (at least,
and maybe see) what we intended.
True. Excellent. Now what we need to do is use MIME to label the use
of ISO 2022, so that the recipient of a message can have a chance to
know (a) that ISO 2022 shifts are going to be used in the message text,
and maybe even (b) which flavors of ISO 2022 charset shifts are going to
be used.
Without a label, who outside Japan will be expecting full ISO 2022 in a
piece of mail?
Craig