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Re: Clearsigning, MIME, etc.

2002-04-18 13:23:41


From: John Dlugosz

That is the official IANA name.  See
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets .  A while back, when
looking for the official name, that's the only one I could find!

Now, I see that windows-1252 is listed also.  They don't show date of
listing, but if the MIBenum is incremented each time, it's clearly a
recient addition.

iso-8859-1 is also listed, and it's a subset.  Windows started with that
and added glyphs in the C1 control area.





Marc Mutz <mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org> on 04-18-2002 12:35:21 PM

To:   john(_dot_)dlugosz(_at_)kodak(_dot_)com, 
roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org
cc:   ietf-openpgp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject:  Re: Clearsigning, MIME, etc.


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On Thursday 18 April 2002 18:31, john(_dot_)dlugosz(_at_)kodak(_dot_)com wrote:
<snip>
Use a header inside the PGP envelope to note the message's character set.
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     Hash: SHA2
     Charset: ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1

     Message starts here...
Now how many people are going to use the correct official name, when it's
such a jawbreaker?  Look at the charset declaration in web pages, and
very
few get it right.  So, better make that clear.
<snip>

Which charset should this be? The official, preferred mime-name is
"iso-8859-1", and nothing else should be used, though the recveiver should
understand other common names.

Marc

- --
Marc Mutz <mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org>
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