RFC 2048:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ...
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character set


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... open-ended framework and can accommodate additional object types, character sets, and access methods without any changes to the basic protocol. A registration process ...


... things that are better thought of as a transfer encoding, as a character set, or as a collection of separate entities of another type, is not allowed. For example, although applications exist to decode the base64 ...
... Media types must function as an actual media format. In particular, character sets and transfer encodings may not be registered as media types ...



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