RFC 2237 · INFORMATIONAL · 1997

Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages

Overview

RFC 2237, “Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages”, is an Informational document published in November 1997 by K. Tamaru. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo defines an encoding scheme for the Japanese Characters, describes "ISO-2022-JP-1", which is used in electronic mail [RFC-822], and network news [RFC 1036]. Also this memo provides a listing of the Japanese Character Set that can be used in this encoding scheme. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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