- ASCII strings, and binary formatting is used only
- where formatting as ASCII makes little sense. New
- fields may be freely defined by applications, but a
- few fields have special meaning. All fields with
- special meaning are optional.</para>
+ UTF-8 text strings, and binary formatting is used only
+ where formatting as UTF-8 text strings makes little
+ sense. New fields may freely be defined by
+ applications, but a few fields have special
+ meaning. All fields with special meanings are
+ optional.</para>