[Enigmail] Unusable Japanese language. (Was Re: [ANN] Enigmail v0.96.0 available

[Phil Stracchino]

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Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> In order to be compliant with OpenPGP, the character set ISO-2022-JP
> cannot be used since messages in this charset violate the PGP/MIME
> standard.

OK, now I'm curious.  Why does ISO-2022-CP charset violate the PGP/MIME
standard?  Is there a technical reason, was it arbitrarily excluded as a
permissible charset, or was it just never written in?


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