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Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

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From: list-ietf-i18n-imaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Claus Färber)
Date: 28 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0000
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Edmon Chung <edmon@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb/wrote:

> I dont agree with the forward looking part.
> The big reason as far as I believe that there should be a charset parameter
> is because of forward looking.  Today we move from English only to
> multilingual... if the design in the first place allowed the charset
> parameter, we wouldnt have the problem at all...

No, we would have a lot of problems now.

For example, someone wants to send me a mail to cfärber@xxxxxx, but his  
mailer uses ISO-8859-15, which the MDA of my ISP does not know (although  
it knows ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8). The message bounces.

Claus
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