Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> > OK, now you lost me. MIME doesn't "register" anything. It's a protocol.
> > Do you mean IANA?
> >
> Right, sorry. Although I believe that the only use for the IANA character-
> set registrations is for MIME charsets. (Are there any other uses?)
>
Possibly, though it helps to have official names to refer to, and those names
are not always the MIME-preferred names. It provides a common ground for
discussing particular charsets in technical documents.
The only IANA names I use in implementation are the MIME-preferred ones, in
email headers, HTML pages, HTTP headers, and for certain charset conversion
routines.
Are other folks using the IANA names that are not MIME-preferred in
implementations?
Andrea
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Andrea Vine
Sun-Netscape Alliance messaging i18n architect
avine@eng.sun.com
I always wanted to be an architect. }sigh{ Of course, I _am_ an architect.
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