Re: [EAI] Body parts

["Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:38:52 +0100, Shawn Steele  
<Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com> wrote:

> (That subject doesn't sound quite right out of context :)
>
> I was looking at the drafts and trying to find a recommendation for the  
> body part.  I see the requirement for 8 bit body parts, however I would  
> like to see that the body SHOULD be encoded in UTF-8 for UTF8SMTP.  Is  
> there any such language and I just missed it?

Actually, there may be good reasons for using other charsets in body  
parts. Charsets in the higher reaches of Unicode require rather long  
strings of bytes per character in UTF-8. That is not a serious issue for  
headers, but body parts might well be significantly shorter in charsets  
more suited to the language in use.

Can anyone provide data on the efficiency of UTF-8 and BIG5, for example?

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