John C Klensin wrote:
o MIME's [RFC2045] and [RFC2046] allow for the transport of
true multimedia material, which has obvious applicability
to internationalization.
It is not obvious at all.
It's actually wrong.
Considering that 7bit e-mail was already internationalized by ISO
2022, which can encode all the characters in the world in 7 bit, as
exemplified by RFC1468, RFC1554 and RFC1557, supporting Japanese,
Korean and non-Latin European character sets with 7bit, which can
be carried over RFC821/RFC822 environment, 8bit support of MIME has
nothing to do with the internationalization.
o In [RFC2045] and [RFC2046], MIME allows for the
transport of true multimedia material. Such material
enables internationalization because it is not
restricted to any particular language or locale.
You badly confuse language, character encoding and characters.
MIME does enable 8 bit encoding. However, all the characters in
the world can be transported in 7 bit over RFC821/RFC822.
Language has nothing to do with 7/8 bit differentiaiton.
The text should be:
o MIME's [RFC2045] and [RFC2046] allow for the transport of
8bit characters and binary data, which has obvious applicability
to true multimedia material.
Masataka Ohta
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