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   From: rodd@panix.com   
      
   In article <87zjxewqvb.fsf@violet.siamics.net>,   
   Ivan Shmakov   wrote:   
   >>>>>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes:   
   >>>>>> Ivan Shmakov  said:   
   >>>> There shouldn't be any \xFF octets.   
   >   
   >>> Specifically, while UTF-8 doesn't seem to use \xFF, ISO-8859-1   
   >>> assigns it for LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS, windows-1251 for   
   >>> CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA, and so on.   
   >   
   >> While RFC 3977 provides an 8 bit transport mechanism, RFC 5536 does   
   >> not permit un-encoded non-ASCII data.   
   >   
   >	Somehow, I fail to find such a prohibition there.  Could you   
   >	please quote the relevant part thereof?   
      
   RFC 5536 section 1.4.  Syntax Notation   
       body     =    
      
   RFC 5322 Section 3.5 Overall Message Syntax   
       text     =   %d1-9 /            ; Characters excluding CR   
                    %d11 /             ;  and LF   
                    %d12 /   
                    %d14-127   
      
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