John C Klensin wrote:
>>>>o MIME's [RFC2045] and [RFC2046] allow for the transport of
>>>>true multimedia material, which has obvious applicability
>>>>to internationalization.
>>
>>>It is not obvious at all.
It's actually wrong.
Considering that 7bit e-mail was already internationalized by ISO
2022, which can encode all the characters in the world in 7 bit, as
exemplified by RFC1468, RFC1554 and RFC1557, supporting Japanese,
Korean and non-Latin European character sets with 7bit, which can
be carried over RFC821/RFC822 environment, 8bit support of MIME has
nothing to do with the internationalization.
> o In [RFC2045] and [RFC2046], MIME allows for the
> transport of true multimedia material. Such material
> enables internationalization because it is not
> restricted to any particular language or locale.
You badly confuse language, character encoding and characters.
MIME does enable 8 bit encoding. However, all the characters in
the world can be transported in 7 bit over RFC821/RFC822.
Language has nothing to do with 7/8 bit differentiaiton.
The text should be:
o MIME's [RFC2045] and [RFC2046] allow for the transport of
8bit characters and binary data, which has obvious applicability
to true multimedia material.
Masataka Ohta
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