RFC 2152
UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode, May 1997
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 1642
- Authors:
- D. Goldsmith
M. Davis - Stream:
- [Legacy]
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DOI: 10.17487/RFC2152
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Abstract
This document describes a transformation format of Unicode that contains only 7-bit ASCII octets and is intended to be readable by humans in the limiting case that the document consists of characters from the US-ASCII repertoire. It also specifies how this transformation format is used in the context of MIME and RFC 1641, "Using Unicode with MIME". This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.