From: Dave Crocker (dcrocker@brandenburg.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 18:26:40 CST
Folks,
The most amusing things about this line of discussion is how similar it
sounds to claims made during the MIME discussions, 10 years ago.
Unicode has taken over. 8-bit is prevalent. etc. etc.
Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 3:52:35 PM, you wrote:
>> My point was that the argument that it's bad and evil to make an
>> incompatible change that would mean that 8 bit data would circulate
>> somewhere where it's not allowed in the current standards is weak
>> because the actual situation is that a lot of 8 bit data is being sent.
Keith> no, it doesn't follow. yes, a lot of 8-bit data is being sent,
Keith> but there's also a very good chance that that data is not being
Keith> displayed correctly at the recipient's end. most mail handling
Keith> tools have learned not to crash when presented with 8-bit header
Keith> text, but there is no good convention for how to interpret such
Keith> text. (and simply saying "use utf-8" doesn't work
d/
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