RE: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

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From: David Barr (barr@visi.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 14:18:47 CST


[ Sigh. Ignore my previous email correcting my non-error. I've been at my
computer too long today and my eyes are going batty. ]

> the second does not follow from the first. or more
> specifically, just because someone puts untagged 8bit
> characters in a message header does not mean that that person
> would support a standard of using utf-8 (or any other
> representation other than the one he happened to be using) in
> the message header.

However, client support for (and active use of) UTF-8 is far more pervasive
than any of the other proposed encoding schemes.

--Dave


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