RFC Errata
Found 3 records.
Status: Verified (2)
RFC 2152, "UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode", May 1997
Source of RFC: LegacyArea Assignment: app
Errata ID: 3982
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Peter Occil
Date Reported: 2014-05-08
Verifier Name: Pete Resnick
Date Verified: 2014-06-04
Section Definitions says:
Character ASCII & Unicode Value (decimal) [...] [...] ' 96
It should say:
Character ASCII & Unicode Value (decimal) [...] [...] ` 96
Notes:
The wrong character is used in the left column: code point 96 corresponds to "Grave Accent", not "Apostrophe".
Errata ID: 862
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Christian Aymon
Date Reported: 2006-05-16
In "UTF-7 Definition", it says:
Such characters include control characters such as carriage returns and line feeds; thus, a Unicode shifted sequence always terminates at the of a line.
It should say:
Such characters include control characters such as carriage returns and line feeds; thus, a Unicode shifted sequence always terminates at the end of a line.
Notes:
missing word
Status: Rejected (1)
RFC 2152, "UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode", May 1997
Source of RFC: LegacyArea Assignment: app
Errata ID: 5475
Status: Rejected
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Peter Occil
Date Reported: 2018-08-22
Rejected by: Barry Leiba
Date Rejected: 2019-04-30
Section Discussion says:
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=foo Content-Disposition: inline --foo Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Mom --foo Content-type: text/plain; charset=UNICODE-2-0 Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Jjo= --foo Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ! --foo--
It should say:
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=foo Content-Disposition: inline --foo Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Mom --foo Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Jjo= --foo Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ! --foo--
Notes:
The charset name for this RFC is UTF-7, not UNICODE-2-0.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
This is an example that's specifically introduced with, "As an alternative to use of UTF-7," and quite intentionally uses a charset other than UTF-7.