From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 08:22:52 CST
In <BA72B719.783C%planb@newsreaders.com> "J.B. Moreno" <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
>(Which makes me think that a possible better way to go for mail, if it
>refuses to go 8 bits, would be to introduce a general purpose encoding that
>does *not* include a charset, but was simply a byte value translation;
>=?iso-bval?Q?Jan=DFen?=, it'd be no harder to get supported than Punnycode
>or any other encoding, and would deal with the fact that often mail relayers
>*do* get untagged 8 bit bytes).
Isn't there an official charset "unknown" for that situation?
=?unknown?Q?Jan=DFen?=
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