From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 13:08:53 CST
On 2/12/03 10:44 AM, Bruce Lilly at <blilly@erols.com> wrote:
> Before utf-8 can be adopted, there needs to be a transition
> period where there is a moratorium on *all* untagged 8-bit
> header field content as a prerequisite to a state where
> the only untagged 8-bit content is utf-8. The current
> Usefor draft lacks such a transition plan.
Because it doesn't need it -- UTF8 can be reliably inferred, and even if it
couldn't it wouldn't matter; as a last resort the user can always tell the
UA what it is. Most UA have some method of saying "defualt" and then
switching it on a case by case basis -- if the users UA doesn't, and the
user cares, then he can switch to something that does.
Besides that -- USENET is inherently a lossy medium, the only difference
between something not arriving because it simply got dropped on the floor
and something that was either corrupted or tossed because of old tools, is
the fact that the old tools can be upgraded.
-- J.B. Moreno