From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 17:00:28 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> OK, so you want to disallow all usage of UTF-8 in Netnews headers in
> favour of requiring them all to be encoded within 7bits?
I don't think I would say that.
However, I would only allow 8-bit characters in netnews headers in places
where it's not going to break something else, and whether the places where
it's actually safe ends up being the null set isn't something that I've
seen established yet.
I certainly don't think that it's sane to have to worry about headers
contained in nested multiparts; there are reasons why the MIME standards
require what they require.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>