From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 11:55:24 CDT
In <3D89F819.9030601@alex.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>Claus Färber wrote:
>> There are a lot of mail<->news
>> gateways _today_. Will they correctly convert a header with unencoded
>> UTF-8, as it is proposed for news, to RFC 2047/2231, which is needed for
>> email?
>and an obvious followup is:
>If so, if an article arrives as mail with tagged (charset and language)
>extended text using 2047/2231, and these are converted to untagged UTF-8
>for news, will the nes->mail gateway re-encode with yags (specifically
>with the language tag that was present in the original, and with the
>same charset as the original)?
I see no requirement that it should end up with the same tags or charset
as it started out with. Gatewaying is not, and never has been, such a
precise art as that.
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