Re: charset="Windows-1252"

["Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr>:
> 
> > Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> >> That would be the correct solution.  AFAIK "Windows-1252" isn't a
> >> legal charset parameter to text/plain.
> 
> > Why not? 
> 
> Because of this statement from section 4.1.2 (not 4.1.1 as I said
> earlier. Sorry!) of RFC2046. at the bottom of page 9:
> 
> The defined charset values are:
> 
>     (1)   US-ASCII -- as defined in ANSI X3.4-1986 [US-ASCII].
> 
>     (2)   ISO-8859-X -- where "X" is to be replaced, as
>           necessary, for the parts of ISO-8859 [ISO-8859].  Note
>           that the ISO 646 character sets have deliberately been
>           omitted in favor of their 8859 replacements, which are
>           the designated character sets for Internet mail.  As of
>           the publication of this document, the legitimate values
>           for "X" are the digits 1 through 10.

10 is a digit?  it looks like two digits to me.

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