The MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) specification (RFC 1521 and successors) defines a mechanism for encoding text consisting primarily of printable ASCII characters, but which may contain characters (for example, accented letters in the ISO 8859 Latin-1 character set) which cannot be encoded as 7-bit ASCII or are non-printable characters which may confuse mail transfer agents. WWW: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/qprint/