From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 16:21:03 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> However, a really ugly thought occurred to me last night. Suppose we
> invent a new encoding for RFC 2047 (which is allowed), and also extend the
> characters allowed in 'encoded-text' to include 8bit chars
The last part is where that breaks; the characters used in an encoded-word
are a subset of us-ascii (most restrictive in a phrase, less so in comments
and unstructured text). The encoded-text, which is obviously part of the
encoded-word has to fit in that subset.