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

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

> 
> > But even if is is restricted to UCS is would work fine to use:
> > 
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > 
> > 
> > and only encode characters that can not be represented by 8 bits.
> 
> Would work fine, eh? Who's going to figure out what the 8-bit
> characters are, and how? 
If it is UCS, the 8-bit characters are in UCS, of course! (i.e. iso 8859-1)

> And then also something like
> 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
> 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> would have to mean something (because iso-2022-jp is a pure
> 7-bit encoding). Very strange indeed!
> 
It is prefectely ok to use the above, even though there are no
8-bit characters. You are allowed to specify
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
even if no 8-bit codes are used.

   Dan