From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18891 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MML: The Summation Date: 18 Nov 1998 14:29:38 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199811181636.LAA29203@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157338 8639 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:42:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16093 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:31:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB24279; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:30:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:30:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10239 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:30:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16055 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:29:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from augustus-239.cs.umn.edu (augustus-227.cs.umn.edu [160.94.227.171]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id VAA01110 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:29:47 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from sejong.cs.umn.edu (harinath@sejong.cs.umn.edu [160.94.148.134]) by augustus-239.cs.umn.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11480 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:29:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from harinath@localhost) by sejong.cs.umn.edu (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA25917; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:29:39 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Vladimir Volovich's message of "18 Nov 1998 21:30:30 +0300" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07005 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.50) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18891 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18891 Vladimir Volovich 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 -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash