Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

["Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel+gen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <89108836668.20030111162443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 01/11/2003
   at 04:24 PM, Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>7.  breaking standards is not measured by whether someone's code
>core-dumps. it is measured by whether it violates the specification. 
>sending 8-bit data in a 7-bit environment breaks the specification. 

The jinni is already out of the body; people have been sending 8-bit
data in headers for years. They have had good reasons for doing so,
even though they broke interoperability. Mandating UTF-8 would help to
restore interoperability.
 
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