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Re: Revision of RFC 1494 - Teletex mapping?

Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no Tue, 10 January 1995 09:53 UTC

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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
To: "Carl S. Gutekunst" <csg@hideji.worldtalk.com>
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Subject: Re: Revision of RFC 1494 - Teletex mapping?
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Carl,
a problem with using the ISO 6937 body part, which I think you are talking
about, is that the spec is simply not available.

Mapping to the ISO 6937 character set rather than the T.61 character set
might be a good idea, IF we can avoid a mandatory requirement for scanning
the whole body of a text/plain; charset=ISO6937 body part in order to find
out whether it can be turned into Teletex or not.

Another problem is that the Teletex body part *allows* character set
switching; perhaps I (shudder!) need to register a new character set
like iso-2022-* to match its properties!

Strange thing about GeneralText: It is in fact mandated by the EWOS
profiles. Its non-support may be indicative of the death of profiling....

                   Harald A

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