Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-goldsmith-utf7-01.txt

[Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>]

> If there are no objections I will try to advance this to RFC 
> (Experimental) status in two weeks, then register "UTF-7".
> 

The drafts says:
   UTF-7 should normally be used only in the context of 7 bit
   transports, such as mail and news. In other contexts, straight
   Unicode or UTF-8 is preferred.


UTF-7 would work very nice with 8-bit transports, for example when sending
e-mail and using charset=iso-8859-1; content-transfer-encoding=8bit
allowing all 8-bits to be used giving an easy to read text of the
8bit character set and still allowing all UCS-2 characters to be used.

Most 8-bit character sets should be able to use it allowing them to
still be readable and compact without removing the possiblity to include
all UCS-2 characters. Is like if we had an UTF-8 that did not destroy
the 8-bit character set in use.


    Dan
    
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