From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 04:00:35 CDT
In <7QJht0QZcDB@faerber.muc.de> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>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
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>| the header. Notably missing is 0x00, which would require a major
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>| 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.
Sure, I know sendmail munges those characters in headers. One day they
will fix it.
But in the meantime, encapsulating in either message/news, or
message/rfc822, or application/news-transmission will get it through
sendmail quite well, provided 8BITMIME is in use (because the Newsgroups
line, or whatever is causing the problem, is not then within what sendmail
considers to be "headers" for its purpose).
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