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Re: 3028bis status



On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 05:10 -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> I finally got rev -07 posted in late June.  Changes from rev -06:
>   5. Permit non-UTF-8 octet sequences in strings

in strings yes, but not in scripts.  agreed?  non-UTF-8 must be encoded
in whatever manner is available.

> (b) is the continuation of change #5 above.  That was in response to Ned's 
> observation that you need to be able to put text in other character sets 
> into strings for things like vacation's :mime option.  E.g., usability may 
> demand a site returning vacation responses in some ISO-8859-* charset.

sure, but the script doesn't need to contain ISO 8859-* octet values.
-- 
Kjetil T.