Re: UTF-8

From: Misha Wolf (Misha.Wolf@reuters.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 12:55:01 EDT


On 12/06/2001 06:43:10 Bill Kurmey wrote:
[...]

> Is the following an accurate statement of the present situation?
>
> Currently, if an email client receives a message with "Content Type:"
> containing "charset=UTF-8" and accepts up to 6 octets for each scalar
> value, it would be considered "Unicode compliant."

AFAIK, this is true.

> If it generated
> messages with "Content Type:" containing "charset=UTF-8" and complied with
> the IETF specification (RFC 2279) for generating UTF-8 8-bit values, it
> would not be considered "Unicode compliant."

AFAIK, this is *not* true.

Misha

> Bill Kurmey, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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