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

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Barr <barr@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> If you are right and they are going to continue doing what they are
> doing regardless, then your point is moot (since they wouldn't accept
> either of the proposed routes).

Yes.  That is exactly and precisely my point.  Right now, the existence of
people sending unlabelled 8-bit national character sets on Usenet is being
used in support of UTF-8, which makes no sense to me at all.  Unlabelled
national character sets are not UTF-8.

I believe that what you say above is more likely to be true, namely that
what those folks are doing is basically moot from a standardization
viewpoint since they're doing the one thing that we *can't* standardize.

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