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... usually NOT identical to US-ASCII, and in that case their use in
Internet mail is explicitly discouraged. The omission of the ISO 646
character set ...
... character set that can be used
universally for representing all of the world's languages in Internet
mail would be preferrable. Unfortunately, existing practice in
several communities seems to point to the continued use of multiple
character sets ...
... omitted in favor of their 8859 replacements, which are
the designated character sets for Internet mail. As of
the publication of this document, the legitimate values
for "X" are the digits 1 through 10.
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... No character set name other than those defined above may be used in
Internet mail without the publication of a formal specification and
its registration with IANA ...
... media type of "text/plain; charset=us-ascii" for Internet
mail describes existing Internet practice. That is, it is the type
of body defined by RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) ...
... PostScript in various forms. This is not recommended
for use in Internet mail, both because it is not
supported by all PostScript interpreters and because it
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... be in force. (That is, the transport domains may exist that resemble
standard Internet mail transport as specified in RFC 821std10(-> 2821prop) and assumed
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... the external body reference, they need not conform to transport
limitations that apply to the reference itself. In particular,
Internet mail transports may impose 7bit and line length limits, but
these do not automatically apply to binary external body references.
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For more information, the authors of this document are best contacted
via Internet mail:
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