RFC 2152: UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document describes a transformation format of Unicode that contains only 7-bit ASCII octets and is intended to be readable by humans in the limiting case that the document consists of characters from the US-ASCII repertoire. It also specifies how this transformation format is used in the context of MIME and RFC 1641, "Using Unicode with MIME". 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
- RFC2152
- Published
- May 1997
- Authors
- D. Goldsmith; M. Davis
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 15
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 1642
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