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- Title
- The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters
- Author
- R. Gellens
- Filename
- draft-gellens-format-bis-04.txt
- Expires
- April 2004
This specification establishes two parameters to be used with the Text/Plain media type, and, in the presence of these parameters, the use of trailing whitespace to indicate flowed lines. This results in an encoding which appears as normal Text/Plain in older implementations, since it is in fact normal Text/Plain, yet provides for superior wrapping, flowing, and quoting.
This standard supersedes the one specified in RFC 2646, ‘The Text/Plain Format Parameter’, and adds the DelSp parameter to accommodate languages/coded character sets in which ASCII spaces are not used or appear rarely.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gellens-format-bis-04.txt