Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

OK, so here's my first pass at the "UTF-8 headers" strawman I put up 
a few weeks ago. I kinda rushed it together, so I might have missed 
some suggestions that I want to put in eventually.

Please remember to start threads with new Subject lines.

--Paul Hoffman

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> 	Title		: SMTP Service Extensions or Transmission of 
> Headers in UTF-8 Encoding
> 	Author(s)	: P. Hoffman
> 	Filename	: draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 0
> 	Date		: 2003-12-16
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> Mailbox names often represent the names of human users. Many of these
> users throughout the world have names that are not normally represented
> by the users with just the ASCII repertoire of characters, and would 
> therefore like to use their real names in their mailbox names. These 
> users are also likely to use non-ASCII text in their common names 
> and subjects of email messages, both in what they send and what they 
> receive. This protocol specifies how to represent all headers
> of email messages encoded in UTF-8.
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