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The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
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Network Working Group C. Weider
Request for Comments: 2130 Microsoft
Category: Informational C. Preston
Preston & Lynch
K. Simonsen
DKUUG
H. Alvestrand
UNINETT
R. Atkinson
Cisco Systems
M. Crispin
University of Washington
P. Svanberg
KTH
April 1997
The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop
held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to sincerely thank Information Sciences
Institute (ISI), and in particular Joyce K. Reynolds for graciously
hosting this event; Joe Kemp and Jeanine Yamazaki of ISI made sure
the facilities met our needs. We also wish to thank the Internet
Society, which underwrote travel for participants who might not
otherwise have been able to attend. Of course, we also wish to thank
the many experts who participated in the workshop and on the mailing
list; a complete list of these people can be found in Appendix D.
Bunyip Information Systems was kind enough to provide mailing list
facilities for this work.
Table of Contents
Abstract
0: Executive summary.......................................... 2
1: Introduction............................................... 3
2: Character sets on the Internet -- the problem.............. 3
2.1: Character set handling in existing protocols............... 4
3: Architectural model........................................ 6
3.1: Segments defined........................................... 7
3.2: On the wire................................................ 8
Weider, et. al. Informational