From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 05:35:02 CST
In <200212051229.NAA02432@message-id.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
>Russ Allbery wrote:
>> But while that isn't my favorite way of handling UTF-8,
>> I can understand the arguments in favor of it, and it
>> seems better than anything other than doing nothing.
>>
>> It's going to be a lot of work
>> for implementors, though. Whee.
>That's for sure, so maybe we should decide early on
>whether we want all those funky transformation algorithms
>to delay the base RFC or whether they should be split off
>as well.
What funky transformation algorithms?
There is RFC 2045 etc and RFC 2047 and RFC 2231, and there is our 5.5.2.
All that is needed is to say, in the proper places, that they MUST be
applied correctly (the fact the it is impossible to apply RFC 2047
correctly to anthing is not our problem :-) ).
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