From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21082 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: More charset things Date: 09 Feb 1999 17:03:13 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d83qkyjf.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <87ognahyoh.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159256 21153 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:14:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24610 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:18:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB13788; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:17:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:17:31 -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 KAA06393 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:16:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp092.uio.no [129.240.240.97]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24489 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:16:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19670; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:15:46 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Susan Sontag's _On Photography_ X-Now-Playing: Latin Quarter's _Mick and Caroline_: "The Night" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "08 Feb 1999 10:52:43 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070076 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.76) Emacs/20.3 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > UTF-8 is an encoding scheme, comparable to uuencode. > > But it is currently used to encode one and only character set, the UCS > (described in Unicode manuals and within ISO 10646). But theoretically, > it could well be used to encode other things. >>From off the top of my head -- we have two things, "encoded character set" (which one usually just calls "character set" unless there's a possibility for confusion), and we have "character encoding scheme". ECS and CES. Unicode is an ECS and utf-8 is a CES that is only used for the ECS Unicode. However -- in a MIME context, we don't care about this. What we deal with is "charsets", which is not an ECS or an CES, but a combination of the two. Therefore, "charset=utf-8" is correct. In a MIME context, utf-8 is not an encoding, it is purely, and always, a charset, and nothing else. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen