quoted-printable

[dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Walt Daniels)]

>Quoted-printable has strictly no technical raison d'etre. It has been
>introduced to allow encoded text to be somewhat visible. If only the
>presence of x'0D0A' in the text can produce a (hard) line break in the
>encoding, quoted-printable produced by machines using anything else
>internally to delimit lines will not contain any hard line-breaks.
>Makes the encoding rather difficult to read. But there is more :
>the line structure of the text will be lost when decoded on a machine
>using another local convention. Or am I goofing once again ?
> "Alain FONTAINE (Postmaster - UCL)" <fontaine@sri.ucl.ac.be>

I agree.  Quoted-printable seems like excess baggage.  It is in fact
nothing more than a poor man's version of mneumonic and I don't like
mneumonic very much either.  If you need something of this form, then
the UTF of ISO 10646 DIS 2 is a better candidate.  (Yeah, I know that
is 8 bit - but it would provide an incentive :-).