Re: [tlug] Email encoding for DoCoMo and AU

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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).
Ah -- do you remember when a 300 baud connection was really 
fast :)

Steve S.