Carl-san
We can use a universal character encoding scheme like UTF-8.
A terminal can send information by UTF-8,
but the receiver could not print the information written in UTF-8
since it needs font data to print.
We can raise the bar that IPP FAX must print all UTF-8.
Regards.
Toru Maeda
At 09:28 01/02/16 -0700, Carl Kugler wrote:
>Wouldn't a universal character encoding scheme like UTF-8 solve the
>character set problem?
>> -Carl
>>>>MAEDA toru <maeda.toru at canon.co.jp>@pwg.org on 02/16/2001 03:11:43 AM
>>Sent by: owner-ifx at pwg.org>>>To: Dan Wing <dwing at cisco.com>
>cc: jdahmen at atl.mediaone.net, "'Wagner,William'"
> <wwagner at netsilicon.com>, ifx at pwg.org>Subject: RE: IFX> Legal Requirements on Classic fax
>>>>Wing-san
>>Thank you very much for the clarification.
>>"And an ifax device would need
>to understand all sorts of different character sets to interpret all
>sorts of different headers."
>>This idea is not practical, so the fax sends the image header
>on top of the page and the coded Sender ID over T.30 protocol.
>>>Regards,
>>Toru Maeda
>>At 08:21 01/02/14 -0800, Dan Wing wrote:
> >On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:07 +0900, MAEDA toru wrote:
> >
> > > Wing-san
> > >
> > > I understand that all common mailers, including Eudora, Netscape, pine,
> > > and many others, are capable of handling RFC2047-encoded headers.
> > > But printing or imaging RFC2047-encoded headers are different
>capability.
> >
> >Agreed.
> >
> > > I am not sure that you can print out my email signature in Japanese
>below.
> >
> >Of course not; it doesn't identify itself as a MIME type in a different
> >character set -- it is merely some ASCII embedded in a normal message.
> >
> >But you're right - even if it did, my mailer (pine) doesn't try to
> >display it on the VT100 emulator I use. And an ifax device would need
> >to understand all sorts of different character sets to interpret all
> >sorts of different headers.
> >
> >The advantage of using computer-readable headers, of course, is allowing
> >for sorting, searching, and other computer-assisted operations. That
> >can only be done with image data using unreliable OCR.
> >
> >-d
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> > > Toru Maeda
> > >
> > >
> > > At 18:46 01/02/13 -0800, Dan Wing wrote:
> > > >On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:29 +0900, MAEDA toru wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Jim-san
> > > > >
> > > > > We designed that the IFAX header is similer as G3 header.
> > > > > The IFAX header consists of date, time,mail address of transmitter
>and
> > > > page
> > > > > number.
> > > > > One of reason that fax header is send as image form is character
>font
> > > > > converting to image.
> > > > > The receiver could not print the information form transmitter
> > > > > when Japanese characters are send from the transmitter in the
> > information.
> > > >
> > > >Hi.
> > > >
> > > >RFC2047-encoded headers can handle non-ASCII character sets, including
> > > >Japanese. Almost all common mailers, including Eudora, Netscape,
>pine,
> > > >and many others, are capable of handling RFC2047-encoded headers when
>both
> > > >sending and receiving messages.
> > > >
> > > >-d
> > > >
> > > > > I know that the user may not understand the Japanese characters in
>the
> > > > > image header.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Toru Maeda
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
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> > > MAEDA TORU
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> > > CANON Inc.
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