Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Administration Reference

Text and Character Set Specifications

The following tables list documents that describe national and international telecommunications and information processing requirements.


Note –

Messaging Server supports additional character set and language standards not listed here.


National and International

Table A–9 contains material pertaining to national and international telecommunications and information exchange standards.

Table A–9 National and International Information Exchange

Standard  

Status  

Description  

IA5 

International Standard 

ITU-T Recommendation T.50, Fascicle VII.3, Malaga-Torremolinos, International Alphabet No. 5, International Telecommunication Union, 1984, Geneva, 1989.

ISO 2022 

International Standard 

International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Information processing - ISO 7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets - Code extension techniques, Ref. No. ISO 2022-1986.

JIS X 0201 

National Standard 

Japanese Standards Association, Code For Information Interchange, JIS X 0201-1976.

JIS X 0208 

National Standard 

Japanese Standards Association, Code of the Japanese Graphic Character Set For Information Interchange, JIS X 0208-1990.

JUNET 

Public Network 

JUNET Riyou No Tebiki Sakusei Iin Kai (JUNET User's Guide Drafting Committee), JUNET Riyou No Tebiki (JUNET User's Guide), First Edition, February 1988.

printableString 

ASN.1 

International Standard 

ITU-T X.680, aligned with ISO/IEC-8824-1 Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). Appears in LDAP/X.500 attribute data types. Defined jointly by the ISO, ITU-T standards bodies and have been reused in Internet RFCs and ISO, ITU-T standards. 

US ASCII 

National Standard 

American National Standards Institute, ANSI X3.4-1986, Coded Character Set-7-bit American National Standards Code for information interchange. New York, 1986.

US LATIN 

National Standard 

American National Standards Institute, ANSI Z39.47-1985, Coded Character Set-Extended Latin alphabet code for bibliographic use. New York, 1985.

UTF-8 

International Standard 

F. Yergeau, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646, January 1998

Internet References

The documentation in Table A–10 describes Internet communications standards.

Table A–10 Internet References

Standard  

Status  

Description  

RFC 1345 

Information 

Keld Simonsen, Rationel Almen Planlaegning, Internet Activities Board RFC 1345, Character Mnemonics & Character Sets, June 1992.

RFC 1468 

Information 

Jun Murai (Keio University), Mark Crispin (University of Washington), Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages, June 1993.

RFC 1502 

Information 

Harald Tveit Alvestrand, SINTEF DELAB, Internet Activities Board RFC 1502, X.400 Use of Extended Character Sets, August 1993.