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Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Character Set Considered Harmful
Author(s) : D. Connolly
Filename : draft-ietf-html-charset-harmful-00.txt
Pages : 7
Date : 05/02/1995
The term character set is often used to describe a ditigal representation
of text. ASCII is perhaps the most widely deployed representation of text,
and in the interest of interoperability, information systems on the
Internet traditionally rely on it exclusively.
The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) introduces Internet Media
Types, including text representations besides ASCII. The Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML) used in the World-Wide Web is a proposed Internet Media
Type. But HTML is also an application of Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML).
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--NextPart
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--OtherAccess
Content-Type: Message/External-body;
access-type="mail-server";
server="mailserv@ds.internic.net"
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-ID: <19950502143221.I-D@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
ENCODING mime
FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-html-charset-harmful-00.txt
--OtherAccess
Content-Type: Message/External-body;
name="draft-ietf-html-charset-harmful-00.txt";
site="ds.internic.net";
access-type="anon-ftp";
directory="internet-drafts"
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-ID: <19950502143221.I-D@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
--OtherAccess--
--NextPart--