Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

I see.  But why would someone convert to charset A to charset B?  Except for
from (or to) a particular local encoding to UTF8.  Since charsets registered
should be able to convert between ISO10646, there shouldnt be any problem.
Edmon



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <[email protected]>
To: "Edmon Chung" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)


> At 1:30 PM -0500 2/27/03, Edmon Chung wrote:
> >I am not sure what you mean.
> >The document did refer to using the charsets registered at IANA for MIME.
> >Are the charsets registered there not a good set to work with?
>
> If you expect someone to convert from charset A to charset B
> reliably, you have to standardize the mapping table. There are lots
> of examples of mapping tables in use today that differ. Without that,
> someone sending with one charset and expecting the mail to be put in
> exactly the mailbox they mean might be in for a bad surprise.
>
> This was discussed on the IDN mailing list.
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium
>