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Re: [VCARDDAV] Default charset

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Mon, 22 February 2010 15:22 UTC

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On 2/22/10 8:15 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 22.02.2010 16:07, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>> Marc Blanchet wrote:
>>
>>> Cyrus Daboo a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Applications MUST generate vCard data in the UTF-8 charset and
>>>> MUST accept vCard data in the UTF-8 or US-ASCII charset.
>>>
>>> Why should we not stick with UTF-8 only?
>>
>> I think accepting US-ASCII is Ok, as it is a proper subset of UTF-8. I
>> suspect lots of stuff is using it now.
> 
> +1
> 
> "...MUST accept vCard data in the UTF-8 or US-ASCII charset..."
> 
>     is the same thing as
> 
> "...MUST accept vCard data in the UTF-8 charset"
> 
> ...because any recipient that accepts UTF-8 *by definition* also accepts
> US-ASCII.

But is it OK to accept vCard data only in the US-ASCII charset?

Peter

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