Thanks to many discussions on this list, I understand the design
intention of charset. MIME allows to include ISO 2022 JP if charset
label is specified.
Good! I really like MIME for this and other reasons.
This time I'd like to ask about a CTE: issue. When I send a letter
whose body-part is "CT: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp", which CTE:
should I use? How about ISO-8859-1?
I think you should leave the CTE header off for text files
(ordinary mail). Use "Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64" for binary
things: GIFs, JPEGs, sounds, file transfer, etc.
ISO-8859-1 is not a CTE.
--Kazu
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Rick Troth <troth(_at_)ua1vm(_dot_)ua(_dot_)edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/