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The text/enriched MIME Content-type
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Network Working Group P. Resnick
Request for Comments: 1896 QUALCOMM
Obsoletes: 1523, 1563 A. Walker
Category: Informational InterCon
February 1996
The text/enriched MIME Content-type
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
MIME [RFC-1521] defines a format and general framework for the
representation of a wide variety of data types in Internet mail. This
document defines one particular type of MIME data, the text/enriched
MIME type. The text/enriched MIME type is intended to facilitate the
wider interoperation of simple enriched text across a wide variety of
hardware and software platforms. This document is only a minor
revision to the text/enriched MIME type that was first described in
[RFC-1523] and [RFC-1563], and is only intended to be used in the
short term until other MIME types for text formatting in Internet
mail are developed and deployed.
The text/enriched MIME type
In order to promote the wider interoperability of simple formatted
text, this document defines an extremely simple subtype of the MIME
content-type "text", the "text/enriched" subtype. The content-type
line for this type may have one optional parameter, the "charset"
parameter, with the same values permitted for the "text/plain" MIME
content-type.
The text/enriched subtype was designed to meet the following
criteria:
1. The syntax must be extremely simple to parse, so that even
teletype-oriented mail systems can easily strip away the
formatting information and leave only the readable text.
2. The syntax must be extensible to allow for new formatting
commands that are deemed essential for some application.
Resnick & Walker Informational