Re: Plain Text

From: Roman Czyborra (czyborra@taz.de)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 16:21:13 EDT


> Text/plain could still include both reflowable and preformatted
> text, but I believe the weight of history is in favor of using
> that term for preformatted text only.

Please read http://imc.org/draft-gellens-format (also known as
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gellens-format-06.txt)
about the Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8;format=flowed

> MIME will disappear some day but Unicode will last forever

The Internet and MIME will evolve but I don't see them vanish any
earlier than Unicode. MIME has been integrated into the majority of
platforms, browsers and mailreaders worldwide. Without MIME we
wouldn't be able to properly send multilingual text anywhere.



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