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       Title     : A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode            
       Author(s) : D. Goldsmith, M. Davis
       Filename  : draft-goldsmith-mime-utf7-00.txt, .ps
       Pages     : 11
       Date      : 02/18/1994

The Unicode Standard, version 1.1, and ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993(E) jointly 
define a 16 bit character set (hereafter referred to as Unicode) which 
encompasses most of the world's writing systems.  However, Internet mail 
(STD 11, RFC 822) currently supports only 7-bit US ASCII as a character 
set. MIME (RFC 1521 and RFC 1522) extends Internet mail to support 
different media types and character sets, and thus could support Unicode in
mail messages. MIME neither defines Unicode as a permitted character set 
nor specifies how it would be encoded, although it does provide for the 
registration of additional character sets over time.                   

This document describes a new transformation format of Unicode that contains 
only 7-bit ASCII characters and is intended to be readable by humans in the
limiting case that the document consists of characters from the US-ASCII 
repertoire. It also specifies how this transformation format is used in the
context of RFC 1521, RFC 1522, and the companion Internet Draft "Using 
Unicode with MIME".                                                        

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