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

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shmuel (Seymour J ) Metz <Shmuel+gen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Given that people have been sending 8-bit data in headers for years
without regard to any existing standard, why do you believe that releasing
a standard that mandates UTF-8 will cause them to start paying attention
to standards again?

I must say that I don't find the argument "because I personally like this
new standard better than the one that we have now" particularly
persuasive when it comes to predicting the behavior of anyone other than
you personally.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>