From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 14:50:30 CDT
In <3D20786F.3020702@free.fr> jean-marc desperrier <dico.fj@free.fr> writes:
>And I will pursue that I did not see much answer about the fact most
>readers, including xnews, including gravity (use super gravity),
>including pan, pine, now understand RFC2047, and that the same is not
>true for UTF-8, so the current text of the NOTE in the draft is
>misrepresenting the reality.
No, I think it remains true that there are newsreaders out there that do
not understand RFC 2047. Heck, all those 152,100 articles that Andrew
found must have come from user agents that would not or could not
_generate_ RFC 2047, in which case I doubt they were able to _decode_ it
either. And why do all those articles with naked ISO-8859-1 headers appear
in the French newsgroups if it is not because of the existence of
newsreaders that are incapable of generating ot decoding RFC 2047, or
both?
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