From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 09:10:41 CDT
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> Right. But surely SOMEONE involved with the email world has noticed that
> 7-bit-ascii-only is a problem?? Why not let THEM solve it, and then just
> use the same mechanism for news [just as with 1036/822]?
That was our original intent. Unfortunately, the email standards world is
showing very little interest in solving this any time soon, and we have a
choice between putting our work on the shelf -- probably for years,
perhaps indefinitely -- until they get their act together, or doing the
best we can right now to meet at least *our* users' needs.
Our news-on-the-wire solution -- use of full 8 bits for UTF-8 -- is the
way the email *implementation* world is headed, as best we can tell. But
we cannot propose that as the full solution, including use for cases when
news is transmitted by email (e.g. to moderators), because it flatly
violates the email *standards* and would be rejected by IETF.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net