Accent escape sequences
Joe Krahn krahn at niehs.nih.govMon Mar 5 15:33:26 GMT 2007
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Herbert J. Bernstein wrote: > It would be best to use a MIME boundary marker before the MIME header > information. > > ... If I understand right, the boundary is only for "multipart/mixed" content. The actual text then requires an internal Content-Type header. If a single text block is being defined, this is just extra overhead. In looking at MIME specs, even Content-Type is optional, defaulting to plain text. The only mandatory item is the MIME-Version header. If one defines CIF-text as being assumed MIME, then even this could be left out. An interesting idea: The advantage of a simple escape mechanism, like the current scheme, is that it is fairly easy to read directly. The disadvantage is that it has limited abilities. With MIME, the multipart/alternative could be used, where simple ASCII escapes are combined with a more accurate version that is not directly readable. This give the advantages of both forms. Joe Krahn
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