Pete Resnick wrote:
>
> On 5/25/99 at 11:08 AM -0700, Mark H. David wrote:
>
>
> b) In those cases where only 7-bit is available, UTF-8 (which is a
> charset, not an encoding)
Au contraire. UTF-8 is a character encoding scheme, which qualifies it as an
encoding. True, it is not a transfer encoding syntax, but the word "encoding"
does not necessary assert that it is. For more terminology details, please see
RFC 2130. And yes, it is also a charset; encodings and charsets are not
mutually exclusive. Actually what is happening is character set terms and email
terms are overlapping here.
Andrea
-- Andrea Vine Sun Internet Mail Server i18n architect avine@eng.sun.com Romanes eunt domus.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:46 EDT