At 09.35 95-06-08, Harald(_dot_)T(_dot_)Alvestrand(_at_)uninett(_dot_)no wrote:
This forbids, among others, ISO 10646 UCS-2 and EBCDIC as text/plain
character sets.
I assumed that what is called UCS-2 is the same thing as what
in "The Unicode Standard, Version 1.1, Appendix F", is called
FSS-UTF, i.e. Filesystem Safe UCS Transformation Format.
If this is true, I read the encoding rules in a way that all
characters 0x00 to 0x7F is encoded as themselves (as one-byte
characters) and that all other characters is encoded in
two, three, four, five or six byte characters. All the bytes
in the multibyte characters have their 8:th bit set.
By using this encoding, this is to me actually an encoding which
can be sent as a text/plain message, because a 'CR', 'LF'
and NULL are encoded as themselves and those bit-patterns does
not exist in the multibyte encoding of the other characters.
If I am wrong, please let me know.
Patrik