Dan Mosedale wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Katsuhiko Momoi) writes:
>
>>By the way proposing all USETNET news headers in 8bit to be in UTF-8
>>is not going to spread any time soon. For languages like Japanese,
>>there is a separate RFC for the encoding to be used in news/mail and
>>I don't see it changing any time soon, either.
>>
>
>What encoding has been chosen? Can you post a pointer to the relevant
>spec?
>
It is iso-2022-jp and the relevant RFC is:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1468.txt
This is the RFC which solidified the use of 7-bit ISO encoding for
Japanese Internet messages. It has been the
standard message encoding for Japanese since then.
- Kat
