Re: Forbidding 8bit text in Armor comments

[Jon Callas <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:17 PM -0400 7/30/01, John Kane wrote:

>The KDE / Mime team discovered rfc2440 implementations
>which emit comments in the native 8-bit charset.
>This breaks Mime unless they re-encode the entire block
>in radix-64, which conflicts with a PGP/Mime requirement
>that certain OpenPGP Armored formats MUST be left in
>their native "----- BEGIN ... ----- END" format.
>
>They can't use the '=FF' mechanism because it would
>encode the '=' terminators in the armor.
>
>PGP/Mime needs its ASCII Armor to be pure 7-bit ASCII.

Here are questions I have:

Is this an implementation problem, or a standard problem?

How many people outside of North America going to scream if we all of a
sudden limit it to 7-bit?

Is UTF-7 an answer, or a disgusting hack (having to parse two UTFs)?

	Jon