Re: Displaying different character sets on console

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:25:54 +0000, David wrote:

> I have an e-mail which contains some Greek characters. The headers
> include the lines:

> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I am curious as to why the headers specify a Japanese charset to
tranfer Greek letters?

 "Introduction

   This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC822]
   and network news [RFC1036] messages in several Japanese networks. It
   was first specified by and used in JUNET [JUNET]. The encoding is now
   also widely used in Japanese IP communities.

   The name given to this encoding is "ISO-2022-JP", which is intended
   to be used in the "charset" parameter field of MIME headers (see
   [MIME1] and [MIME2])."

    <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1468.html>


  Best regards,

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