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

["David Barr" <barr@xxxxxxxx>]

[ Sigh.  Ignore my previous email correcting my non-error.  I've been at my
computer too long today and my eyes are going batty. ]

> 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.

However, client support for (and active use of) UTF-8 is far more pervasive
than any of the other proposed encoding schemes.

--Dave