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

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:56:16 -0600
"David Barr" <barr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > 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?
> 
> It doesn't take much common sense to see those people putting 8-bit data in
> headers are precisely the ones who think a) 8-bits in headers work (for
> their purposes) and thus b) would be most likely to adopt an 8-bit standard.

the second does not follow from the first.  or more specifically,
just because someone puts untagged 8bit characters in a message
header does not mean that that person would support a standard
of using utf-8 (or any other representation other than the one he
happened to be using) in the message header.

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Keith Moore                              http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/
27 February 1933                                     11 September 2001