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Re: A state of spin ... presented in ASCII

2010-03-20 06:43:02
SM wrote:

It merely means IETF documents MUST BE internationally legible,
that is, pure ASCII.

Actually no, the text does not refer to IETF documents.

Then, it depends on scope of the document and whether you need
bi-directional communication or not (here after, bi-directional
communication is assumed).

If your scope is limited within UK, FR and DE, Latin-1 could
be usable, within Europe (including countries using European
languages/characters), unicode could be.

But, if your scope includes CN and JP, unicode is useless for
plain text communication but ISO-2022-JP-2 could be usable.

If you need really international scope, pure ASCII is the only
choice.

                                                        Masataka Ohta

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