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RFC 1554: ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP

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This memo describes a text encoding scheme: "ISO-2022-JP-2", which is used experimentally for electronic mail [RFC822] and network news [RFC1036] messages in several Japanese networks. The encoding is a multilingual extension of "ISO-2022-JP", the existing encoding for Japanese [2022JP]. The encoding is supported by an Emacs based multilingual text editor: MULE [MULE]. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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Document ID
RFC1554
Published
December 1993
Authors
M. Ohta; K. Handa
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
Legacy
Area
Pages
6
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