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- From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: X.400 and multimedia mail
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:02:36 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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- In article <Bz9B07.8Bo.2@cs.cmu.edu>, ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
- > In article <1gg2qjINN2df@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- > >RFC 1341 explicitly cites a desire to use only characters
- > >which appear in all[*] extant literal standards. The set
- > >[A-Za-z0-9+/] (the brackets aren't included) appears just
- > >about everywhere.
- > [...]
- > >[*] almost all? I don't remember any exceptions.
- >
- > What about BAUDOT?
- > How about the standard APL character set?
- > Neither of these has lower case if my memory serves.
-
- Perhaps a better way to express it is: "only characters that appear
- in all of the worlds that currently exchange rfc822-like-mail". [*]
- That includes not only ASCII but several of the ISO 646 variants and
- several versions of EBCDIC. And there are a few others besides.
- The point is to be Installed-Base Friendly.
-
- (Gee, if you want to exchange MIME mail using Baudot, you could
- probably use quoted-printable and RFC 1342's "Q" encoding to do it.
- I think all the necessary characters are there.)
-
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- Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301
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