RFC 1642

UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode, July 1994

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Status:
EXPERIMENTAL
Obsoleted by:
RFC 2152
Authors:
D. Goldsmith
M. Davis
Stream:
[Legacy]

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC1642

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Abstract

This document describes a new transformation format of Unicode that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and is intended to be readable by humans in the limiting case that the document consists of characters from the US-ASCII repertoire. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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