RFC 2049:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ...
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... MIME media types. The third document describes extensions to RFC 822std11(-> 2822prop) formats to allow for character sets other than US-ASCII. This document describes what portions of MIME ...


... to send at least text/plain messages, with the character set specified with the charset parameter if it is not US-ASCII ...
... -- Recognize and display "text" mail with the character set "US-ASCII." ...
... US-ASCII." -- Recognize other character sets at least to the extent of being able to inform the user about what character set ...
... character sets at least to the extent of being able to inform the user about what character set the message uses. -- Recognize the "ISO ...
... -- Recognize the "ISO-8859-*" character sets to the extent of being able to display those characters that are common to ISO ...
... octet values 1-127. -- For unrecognized subtypes in a known character set, show or offer to show the user the "raw" version of the data after conversion of the content from ...
... canonical form to local form. -- Treat material in an unknown character set as if it were "application/octet-stream". ...
... non-standard support for non-MIME messages employing character sets other than US-ASCII, to do so on received messages only. Conforming user agents ...
... MIME labelling when sending anything other than plain text in the US-ASCII character set. In addition, non-MIME ...
... must support both the "B" and "Q" encodings for any character set which it supports. The program must be able to display the unencoded text if the character set ...
... character set which it supports. The program must be able to display the unencoded text if the character set is "US-ASCII". For the ISO ...
... is "US-ASCII". For the ISO-8859-* character sets, the mail reading program must at least be able to display the characters which are also in the US-ASCII ...


... gateways to systems that use the EBCDIC character set. ...
... This is unavoidable in some environments, notably those not based on the US-ASCII character set. Such conversion is STRONGLY DISCOURAGED, but it may occur, and mail formats must not rely on the persistence of ...
... domains use variations on the US-ASCII character set, or use character sets such as EBCDIC ...


... The body to be transmitted is created in the system's native format. The native character set is used and, where appropriate, local end of line conventions are used as well. The body may be a UNIX-style ...
... canonical form that is used. Conversion to the proper canonical form may involve character set conversion, transformation of audio data, compression ...
... other operations specific to the various media types. If character set conversion is involved, however, care must be taken to understand the semantics of the media type ...
... semantics of the media type, which may have strong implications for any character set conversion, e.g. with regard to syntactically meaningful characters in a text subtype other than "plain". ...
... For example, in the case of text/plain data, the text must be converted to a supported character set and lines must be delimited with CRLF delimiters in ...
... must be first represented in the text/foo form, then (if necessary) represented in the "bar" character set, and finally transformed via the base64 algorithm ...


... text message in a non-ASCII character set. The embedded multipart message itself contains two objects to be displayed in parallel, a picture and an audio ...
... header fields were given and this is text in the US-ASCII character set. It could have been done with explicit typing as in the next part.] ...


... (4) The more specific "US-ASCII" character set name has replaced the use of the informal term ASCII in many ...
... message/external-body". (15) The definition of a character set has been reorganized to make the requirements clearer. ...
... been extensively revised. IANA registration procedures for character sets have been moved to a separate document that is no included in this set of documents. ...
... US-ASCII and ISO-8859-X character sets these documents define have been clarified: Such mechanisms should never be used in conjunction ...
... have been clarified: Such mechanisms should never be used in conjunction with these character sets and their effect if they are used is undefined. ...


... International Standard -- Information Processing -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Part 1: Latin Alphabet No. 1, ISO 8859-1:1987, 1st ed. - Part 2: Latin Alphabet No. 2, ISO 8859-2:1987, 1st ed. - Part 3: Latin Alphabet No. 3, ISO ...
... ISO 8859-8:1988, 1st ed. - Part 9: Latin Alphabet No. 5, ISO/IEC 8859-9:1989, 1st ed. International Standard -- Information Technology -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets - Part 10: Latin Alphabet No. 6, ISO/IEC 8859-10:1992, 1st ed. ...
... International Standard -- Information Technology -- ISO 7-bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange, ISO 646:1991, 3rd ed.. ...
... Simonsen, K., "Character Mnemonics & Character Sets", RFC 1345, Rationel Almen Planlaegning, June 1992. ...
... Coded Character Set -- 7-Bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986. ...



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