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Re: [VCARDDAV] Default charset

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Mon, 22 February 2010 15:13 UTC

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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.

Best regards, Julian

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