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RFC 1642: UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 2152.

Current version: RFC 2152 — UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode

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This document describes a new transformation format of Unicode that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and is intended to be readable by humans in the limiting case that the document consists of characters from the US-ASCII repertoire. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

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Document ID
RFC1642
Published
July 1994
Authors
D. Goldsmith; M. Davis
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
Legacy
Area
—
Pages
14
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 2152

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