Re: registration of our character sets

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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"Kammermeier, Guenther" wrote:
> on behalf of Fujitsu-Siemens Computers I'd like to have character sets
> registered. Attached you find a first attempt for one (of at least 3) sets.
> Please let me know, whether this is enough or what else I should do.

# Abstract
#
# This document provides information about character encoding OSD_EBCDIC_DF03_IRV 
# (Fujitsu-Siemens standard mainframe EBCDIC encoding, which is widely spread in 
# Europe, IRV stands for International Reference Version), which is a de-facto 
# standard in Europe for information interchange on BS2000 mainframe systems of 
# Fujitsu-Siemens Computer.
#
# This charset is suitable for use in MIME text body parts.

EBCDIC-based charsets are not suitable for MIME, since if the charset tag
is not recognised it will be treated as US-ASCII (see RFC 2049). MTAs may
also assume that charsets used for e-mail are based on ASCII (whether they
should or not).

It should also be checked whether this charset is the same as any of the
existing EBCDIC charsets.

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