On 10/20/11 6:59 AM, Miguel A. Garcia wrote:
But even if it is a typo, the text makes no sense. It says:
Section 2.1.1 of [RFC5322] limits lines to 998 characters and
recommends that the lines be restricted to only 78 characters. This
specification changes the former limit to 988 octets.
So, if the limit is still 998, then there is no change with respect
the former limit.
See the next sentence:
(Note that in
ASCII octets and characters are effectively the same but this is not
true in UTF-8.)
Remember, in UTF-8, characters can be multiple octets. So 998 UTF-8
encoded *characters* are likely to be many more than 998 octets long. So
the change is to say that the limit is in octets, not in characters.
pr
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