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... Internet protocols.
In addition, there is a vast profusion of different text encoding
schemes in use on the Internet. This per se is not a problem; each
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... created which establishes the components that
are required to fully specify the transmission of textual data. Many
of these components are already familiar to the users of encoding
protocols such as MIME. Not all of these are discussed in detail ...
... 2) Character Encoding Scheme, and
3) Transfer Encoding Syntax.
Each of these abstract components must be explicitly specified by the
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... MIME, the Coded Character Set and
Character Encoding Scheme are specified by the Charset parameter to
the Content-Type ...
... the Content-Type header field, and Transfer Encoding Syntax is
specified by the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field ...
... header field, and Transfer Encoding Syntax is
specified by the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field.
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... Character Encoding Scheme ...
...
A Character Encoding Scheme (CES) is a mapping from a Coded Character
Set or several coded character sets ...
... Character
Set or several coded character sets to a set of octets. Examples of
Character Encoding Schemes are ISO 2022 [ISO-2022] and UTF-8 ...
... Transfer Encoding Syntax ...
... It is frequently necessary to transform encoded text into a format
which is transmissible by specific protocols. The Transfer Encoding
Syntax (TES) is a transformation applied to character data encoded
using a CCS ...
... CCS and possibly a CES to allow it to be transmitted.
Examples of Transfer Encoding Syntaxes are Base64 Encoding [Base64],
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... CES to allow it to be transmitted.
Examples of Transfer Encoding Syntaxes are Base64 Encoding [Base64],
gzip ...
... CCS, CES, and TES in the
standard. Thus, the encodings used are known through the
access protocol, for example HTTP [HTTP ...
... expect to be able to send it to everyone, the mail protocols need to
be quite adept at handling different character set encodings. On the
other hand, if strings are seldom used in a given protocol, there is
no need to weigh the protocol down with a sophisticated apparatus for
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... character set
parameters. If only one character set encoding is needed, it can be
made explicit in the protocol specification. Protocols with a
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... Default Character Encoding Scheme ...
... HTML] allows the use of &#nnnn to refer to any
ISO 10646 character. Note that this, like all other encodings that
depend on "escape characters", redefines at least one character from
the base character set ...
... Default Transport Encoding Scheme ...
... special cases could be made for protocols that are not 8-bit clean,
such as encoding it for transport over 7-bit connections ...
... should either be defined in the protocol, if only one way is
permitted, or by use of MIME content-transfer-encoding (CTE)
techniques, using IANA registered values.
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Where the conversion of the text S into T must be completely
reversible, apply a Character Encoding Syntax or other reversible
transformation method. This case is most frequently met in data
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... language is implied as well as the coded character set and the
character encoding syntax. We agreed that this is excessive
overloading of MIME charsets ...
... ISO-2022 shifts between multiple coded character sets; in
effect this is an encoding that uses coded character sets for
displaying the appropriate glyphs.
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... A definition of a character encoding scheme ...
...
A definition of a character encoding scheme consists of:
- A description of an algorithm ...
... ESMTP makes it easy to negotiate the use of alternate
language and encoding if it is needed.
Headers
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... CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CTE Content Transfer Encoding
DNS Domain Name Service ...
... SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
TES Transfer Encoding Syntax
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol ...
... more bytes.
Character Encoding Scheme - The mapping from a coded character set to
an encoding ...
... Character Encoding Scheme - The mapping from a coded character set to
an encoding which may be more suitable for specific purpose. For
example, UTF-8 is a character encoding ...
... encoding which may be more suitable for specific purpose. For
example, UTF-8 is a character encoding scheme for ISO 10646.
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... transmission to other computers.
Transfer Encoding Syntax - The mapping from a coded character set
which has been encoded in a Character Encoding ...
... Transfer Encoding Syntax - The mapping from a coded character set
which has been encoded in a Character Encoding Scheme to an
encoding which may be more suitable for transmission using
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... which has been encoded in a Character Encoding Scheme to an
encoding which may be more suitable for transmission using
specific protocols. For example, Base64 ...
... RELCOM Development Team, July 1993.
Choi, U., and K. Chan, "Korean Character Encoding for Internet
Messages", RFC 1557, KAIST, December 1993.
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... University of Tennessee, November 1996.
Murai, J., Crispin, M., and E. von der Poel. "Japanese Character
Encoding for Internet Messages", RFC 1468, Keio University &
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... Inter-University, December 1993.
Nussbacher, H., and Y. Bourvine, "Hebrew Character Encoding for
Internet Messages", RFC 1555 ...
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Wei, U., et.al. "ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character
Encoding for Internet Messages", RFC 1842, AsiInfo Services ...
... 2044(-> 2279(-> 3629std63)), ALIS Technologies, October 1996.
Zhu, H., et.al., "Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages",
RFC 1922 ...