Re: Reviewing philosophies and assumptions

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# > # Or will the current scheme do better (not confuse the state)?
# > 
# > 	Which scheme?
# 
# The current Japanese scheme with ISO 2022 shifts which is only 7-bit. 

	The customers and users of Japanese ULTRIX want 8 bit
	sendmail.  So we give it to them.  I did the 8 bit
	sendmail back for J-ULTRIX v3.0 (2 1/2 years ago).
	Our sendmail has been 8 bit since then.
	I took all of the stripping code out, so it even allows
	login names and aliases with 8 bit characters.
	(of course that doesn't have to be the case with the
	"official" 8 bit SMTP we're discussing here.)

	We haven't run into any problems in our environment here.
	When somebody mistakenly sends 8 bit text to a non-ULTRIX
	unix-like machine (sun, sony, etc..) with a 7 bit sendmail,
	the text just gets stripped.

Hitoshi Doi, International Systems Engineering    doi@jrdmax.jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center             decwrl!jrdmax.enet!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan               doi@decvax.dec.com