Re: MIME info.

Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com> Sat, 19 August 1995 02:33 UTC

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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:30:29 -0700
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From: Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>
To: BDSCSC@tevm2.nsc.com
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Subject: Re: MIME info.
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MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

> FROM: Daniel Calafut
> National Semiconductor
> (408) 721-4331 Fax (408) 732-4116
> SUBJECT: MIME info.
> I have a question concerning the definitions in the current MIME spec. about
>  JIS/SJIS (for Japanese) encoding.  Does MIME provide a standardized header for
>  this and other languages needing two-byte representations?  Thanks...

The answer is yes, MIME does provide for this sort of thing. The charset=
parameter of the text/plain content-type is used. See RFC1521 for specifics of
this header field and parameter and RFC1468 for the specific character encoding
used for Japanese text. (Its ISO-2022 based instead of shift-JIS, but
conversion between ISO-2022-JP and shift-JIS isn't difficult.)

				Ned

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