Hello Stephen, On 2023-12-16 04:06, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
To add that for backward compatibility the plain ASCII alias cannot go away,
I seem to remember too that ASCII was listed as an alias, and have confirmed this with https://web.archive.org/web/20051229042158/http://www.iana.org/assignments/c... Stephen, maybe you can do a bisection to find out where this alias disappeared. <charset reviewer hat on> I don't remember ever having dealt with a request to remove this ALIAS, and I strongly doubt that Ned ever did that. </charset reviewer hat on>
i do have emails with charset=ascii in my archive,
It would be interesting to know how many (i.e. what percentage of overall mails, and what percentage in comparison to those labeled US-ASCII), and how old they are. Regards, Martin.
and GNU "iconv -l" gives
$ iconv -l|grep -i ascii ASCII// CSASCII// US-ASCII//
so if there are any character-sets downstream consumers, let alone automated ones, they need to have the alias also in the future, how deprecated it may be. (For the MUA i maintain i fixed it manually.)
--steffen