Markus Scherer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are talking about charset value for the internet protocol here. It
is a special narrow field of charset name. The value used by Internet
protocol are defined by a well defined process-
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2278.html RFC 2278 - IANA Chars
In a message dated 11/4/2003 1:24:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"well defined process" is a stretch. By the way, RFC 2978 replaced 2278 a few years ago.The problem with the IANA charset _list_ is that it lists not only useful charset names but also- names that are illeg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are talking about charset value for the internet protocol here. It is
a special narrow field of charset name. The value used by Internet
protocol are defined by a well defined process-
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2278.html RFC 2278 - IANA Charset
Registration Proced
At 5:36 pm +0100 2/11/03, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>> True. However, some software will ignore hyphens in charset names in >> order to make bad encoding declarations like "utf8" work properly. Web >> browsers are one example of this.
First of all, a software which ignore the hyphens in one
>Can someone tell me if "utf8" is valid in a charset declaration. I ask >because I notice that neither Mail.app nor Eudora on the Macintosh >(MacOS 10.2.8) will recognise it and decode text so sent and will >insist on "utf-8" or "UTF-8" in the Content-Type decalration, >presumably because the
At 5:36 pm +0100 2/11/03, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
* Terje Bless
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| If it is not registered with IANA, it is not a valid value for the
| Âcharset parameter to the MIME ÂContent-Type header field.
True. However, some software will ignore hyphens in charset names in
order to make bad encod
* Terje Bless
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| If it is not registered with IANA, it is not a valid value for the
| «charset» parameter to the MIME «Content-Type» header field.
True. However, some software will ignore hyphens in charset names in
order to make bad encoding declarations like "utf8" work properly. Web
browsers
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John Delacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone tell me if "utf8" is valid in a charset declaration. I ask
>because I notice that neither Mail.app nor Eudora on the Macintosh
>(MacOS 10.2.8) will recognise it and decode text so sent and will in
Can someone tell me if "utf8" is valid in a charset declaration. I ask because I notice that neither Mail.app nor Eudora on the Macintosh (MacOS 10.2.8) will recognise it and decode text so sent and will insist on "utf-8" or "UTF-8" in the Content-Type decalration, presumably because the Text Enco
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