Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[Stephen A. Carter]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:11:21 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:
>And what about people that does not use ASCII characters, like
>Japanese, Chinese or Korean?

There are four common encoding systems for Japanese:  JIS, Shift-JIS,
EUC, and Unicode.  The only acceptable encoding for Japanese e-mail
on the Internet is JIS (ISO-2022-JP), which is a 7-bit encoding, and
on non-Japanese-enabled computers it is displayed as escaped ASCII
characters.  Use of anything other than JIS may turn into unreadable
junk, and will even crash some mailers.

If you want to e-mail a Japanese document that's not in 7-bit JIS,
you should either convert it to JIS first, or send it as an
attachment.

RFC 1468 describes ISO-2022-JP (JIS).  The situation for Chinese and
Korean is similar, but I don't know the relevant RFCs offhand.


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