RFC 1554 · INFORMATIONAL · 1993

ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP

Overview

RFC 1554, “ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP”, is an Informational document published in December 1993 by M. Ohta, K. Handa. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo describes a text encoding scheme: "ISO-2022-JP-2", which is used experimentally for electronic mail [RFC822] and network news [RFC1036] messages in several Japanese networks. The encoding is a multilingual extension of "ISO-2022-JP", the existing encoding for Japanese [2022JP]. The encoding is supported by an Emacs based multilingual text editor: MULE [MULE]. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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