From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 12:03:51 CST
In <3E56E634.7070606@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>We are under no such pressure. There is a need to be compatible,
>but not to implement it via yet another header field. And the
>simple fact that Organization, Subject, From, Cc, etc. may well
>be in different charsets and/or languages is a very good reason
>why such a hypothetical header field is silly. It is also
>completely unnecessary as RFC 2047/2231 for text strings plus either
>an ACE or lookup for newsgroup names provide internationalization
>in an interoperable, backwards-compatible, BCP-compliant manner.
I think it most unlikely that there will be different languages within one
set of headers, and I don't think even the Chinese have been stupid enough
to use more than one charset.
And in any case, RFC 2047 is there as well, for those who want to show off
their versatility.
And having such a header at least to indicate that 8bit headers were
present would be seen as an advantage by hte IMAP people, because Mark
Crispin specifically asked me for such an indication.
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