From: Jean-Marc Desperrier (jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 03:33:30 CDT
sommar@kairos.kairos.algonet.se wrote:
> Jean-Marc Desperrier <jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com> writes:
> > There will be people using utf-8, and other using local encoding for
> > headers in the same group.
>
> Yes, there will be a transition period. But we have been through this
> before, when we went from 7-bit to 8-bit.
>
> But in difference to that transition, newsreaders can actually apply
> some heuristics. A newsreader can easily detect that a string which is
> supposed to be UTF-8 is not, and can thus in such case use a local charset
> as a fallback.
>
> And RFC2047 only solves this half-way. Readers that don't grasp UTF-8
> will need to be rewritten anyway, and while rewriting the authors
> can implement the fallback.
Which is why it would be a good thing to describe that such a fall-back may be needed in a note
in USEFOR, and describe how it would work.
I'm not able to find anything like that right now in the draft.