Re: MML: The Summation

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:
> Well, i'm also not sure whether MIME officially registered some of
> Unicode encodings as allowable charsets for MIME parts, but if it is
> so, then yes, there is a single charset which includes all those
> languages, and much more. :-)


According to RFC 1700 (STD 02), the allowed character sets include:

  Name: ISO-10646-UCS-2
  Source: the 2-octet Basic Multilingual Plane, aka Unicode
	  this needs to specify network byte order: the standard
	  does not specify (it is a 16-bit integer space)

  Name: ISO-10646-UCS-4
  Source: the full code space. (same comment about byte order,
	  these are 31-bit numbers.

  Name: ISO-10646-UTF-1
  Source: Universal Transfer Format (1), this is the multibyte
	  encoding, that subsets ASCII-7. It does not have byte
	  ordering issues.

- Hari
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