Character Set RFCs

4042 UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
M. Crispin, April 1 2005. Informational, txt=18K

3808 IANA Charset MIB
I. McDonald, June 2004. Informational, txt=24K

3718 A Summary of Unicode Consortium Procedures, Policies, Stability, and Public Access
R. McGowan, February 2004. Informational, txt=25K

3629 UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
F. Yergeau, November 2003. IETF Standard #63 STANDARD (Obsoletes RFC2279), txt=33K

3492 Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
A. Costello, March 2003. Proposed, txt=65K

2987 Registration of Charset and Languages Media Features Tags
P. Hoffman, November 2000. Proposed, txt=8K

2978 IANA Charset Registration Procedures
N. Freed, J. Postel, October 2000. IETF BCP #19 Best Current Practice (Obsoletes RFC2278), txt=21K

2781 UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646
P. Hoffman, F. Yergeau, February 2000. Informational, txt=29K

2482 Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text
K. Whistler, G. Adams, January 1999. Informational, txt=27K

2319 Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U
KOI8-U Working Group, April 1998. Informational, txt=17K

2277 IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
H. Alvestrand, January 1998. IETF BCP #18 Best Current Practice, txt=16K

2237 Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
K. Tamaru, November 1997. Informational, txt=11K

2231 MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
N. Freed, K. Moore, November 1997. Proposed (Obsoletes RFC2184) (Updates RFC2045 RFC2047 RFC2183), txt=18K

2152 UTF-7 A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode
D. Goldsmith, M. Davis, May 1997. Informational (Obsoletes RFC1642), txt=27K

2130 The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996
C. Weider, C. Preston, K. Simonsen, H. Alvestrand, R. Atkinson, M. Crispin, P. Svanberg, April 1997. Informational, txt=61K

2047 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
K. Moore, November 1996. Draft (Obsoletes RFC1521 RFC1522 RFC1590) (Updated by RFC2184 RFC2231), txt=32K

1947 Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages
D. Spinellis, May 1996. Informational, txt=14K

1922 Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
HF, Zhu, DY. Hu, ZG. Wang, TC. Kao, WCH. Chang, M. Crispin. March 1996. Informational, txt=49K

1843 HZ - A Data Format for Exchanging Files of Arbitrarily Mixed Chinese and ASCII characters
F. Lee, August 1995. Informational, txt=8K

1842 ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
Y. Wei, Y. Zhang, J. Li, J. Ding, Y. Jiang, August 1995. Informational, txt=23K

1815 Character Sets ISO-10646 and ISO-10646-J-1
M. Ohta, July 1995. Informational, txt=11K

1658 Definitions of Managed Objects for Character Stream Devices using SMIv2
B. Stewart, July 1994. Draft (Obsoletes RFC1316), txt=31K

1641 Using Unicode with MIME
D. Goldsmith, M. Davis, July 1994. Experimental, txt=10K, ps=19K, pdf=11K

1557 Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages
U. Choi, K. Chon, H. Park, December 1993. Informational, txt=8K

1556 Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME
H. Nussbacher, December 1993. Informational, txt=5K

1555 Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages
H. Nussbacher, Y. Bourvine, December 1993. Informational, txt=9K

1554 ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP
M. Ohta, K. Handa, December 1993. Informational, txt=11K

1489 Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set
A. Chernov, July 1993. Informational, txt=7K

1468 Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
J. Murai, M. Crispin, E. van der Poel, June 1993. Informational, txt=10K

1456 Conventions for Encoding the Vietnamese Language VISCII: VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange VIQR: VIetnamese Quoted-Readable Specification
Vietnamese Standardization Working Group, May 1993. Informational, txt=14K

1345 Character Mnemonics and Character Sets
K. Simonsen, June 1992. Informational, txt=243K

0864 Character Generator Protocol
J. Postel, May 1983. IETF Standard #22 STANDARD, txt=6K

0698 Telnet extended ASCII option
T. Mock, July 1975. Proposed, txt=4K

0627 ASCII text file of hostnames
M.D. Kudlick, E.J. Feinler, March 1974., txt=1K

0570 Experimental input mapping between NVT ASCII and UCSB On Line System
J.R. Pickens, October 1973., txt=0K, ps=476K, pdf=366K

0429 Character Generator Process
J. Postel, December 1972., txt=1K

0373 Arbitrary Character Sets
J. McCarthy, July 1972., txt=7K

0338 EBCDIC/ASCII Mapping for Network RJE
R.T. Braden, May 1972., txt=11K, ps=2331K, pdf=1827K

0183 EBCDIC codes and their mapping to ASCII
J.M. Winett, July 1971. Offline

0020 ASCII format for network interchange
V.G. Cerf, October 1969., txt=18K


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