Re: [tlug] Email encoding for DoCoMo and AU (was: font/char set question)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > Well, that I do, in that ISO-2022-JP fits into the lower 7 bits.
 > 
 > > ISO-2022-JP is old enough for bytesize to matter (RFC 1468).
 > 
 > I'm not sure what you mean by this.

A cute and obscure way of saying the same thing you did.

I was struck by how much effort went into optimizing the number of
bits in these protocols back then, eg that was one rationale for UTF-7
(RFC-1642).