From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 09:24:39 CDT
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> What's odd is that I'd have thought that email would have the same
> problems with 8-bit stuff as news does --- surely non-ASCII folk would
> like to have their *actual* names in the 'From' and 'To' fields, to be
> able to set up proper "Subjects". Even relatively minor things like
> being able to properly spell their Organization: name...
Bernie, my read is that you don't have a problem until you admit you have
a problem, therefore to avoid having problems with 8-bit headers mail has
ignored it to date. Actually there seem to be a fair number of deployed
mail systems which don't handle 8-bit text, either.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me