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Comment by David Boldt
Submitted on 2/1/2006
Related RFC: RFC 2047
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There appears to be a conflict in the RFC between the ABNF for an "encoded-word" described in Section 2 which specifically prevents the use of "especial" characters such as ":" inside of a charset definition and Section 3 which indicates a charset can be any IANA defined charset. Specifically, the charset "ISO-8859-1:1987" is in conflict in the specification