From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 19:00:00 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> In <7QBSTTUocDB@faerber.muc.de> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>>| * Null bytes are not handled properly in headers.
>>|
>>| Sendmail should handle full binary data. As it stands, it handles
>>| all values in the body, but only 0x01-0x80 and 0xA0-0xFF in
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>>| the header. Notably missing is 0x00, which would require a major
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>>| restructuring of the code -- for example, almost no C library support
>>| could be used to handle strings.
>
> But NULL is not a valid character in a newsgroup-name, ...
You missed the important part. Unlike the ISO-8859-X series, UTF-8 does
make use of octets in the range 0x80-0x9f.
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