John C Klensin wrote: >>>>o MIME's [RFC2045] and [RFC2046] allow for the transport of >>>>true multimedia material, which has obvious applicability >>>>to internationalization. >> >>>It is not obvious at all. It's actually wrong. Considering that 7bit e-mail was already internationalized by ISO 2022, which can encode all the characters in the world in 7 bit, as exemplified by RFC1468, RFC1554 and RFC1557, supporting Japanese, Korean and non-Latin European character sets with 7bit, which can be carried over RFC821/RFC822 environment, 8bit support of MIME has nothing to do with the internationalization. > o In [RFC2045] and [RFC2046], MIME allows for the > transport of true multimedia material. Such material > enables internationalization because it is not > restricted to any particular language or locale. You badly confuse language, character encoding and characters. MIME does enable 8 bit encoding. However, all the characters in the world can be transported in 7 bit over RFC821/RFC822. Language has nothing to do with 7/8 bit differentiaiton. The text should be: o MIME's [RFC2045] and [RFC2046] allow for the transport of 8bit characters and binary data, which has obvious applicability to true multimedia material. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf